Re: Avoid indenting the first bar

[Stephen Corey]

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:58:00 +0200, Tom Weissmann wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm using Lilypond to add a hymn to a LaTeX document. I'm very
> impressed!
> 
> A couple of questions:
> 
> - how can I avoid indenting the first line of music? - what does the
> symbol in quotation marks mean mean (visualise it rotated clockwise by
> about 30 degrees) ":||:"?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Tom SW

You can avoid the first line indentation by adding

\layout {
        indent = 0.0 \cm
}