Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 3808 in lilypond: revise default page margins

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Comment #2 on issue 3808 by address@hidden: revise default page margins
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3808

Kieren comment:

> I agree with left/right margins, but not top/bottom.  Top/bottom are
> more tricky because you *want* to allow the page to compress when
> there's really a lot of content; so the adjustment should be done
> using compressible top-markup-spacing and the like.

Agreed.

> I suggest the following way forward: let's discuss horizontal margins
> separately from vertical ones.  It should be a no-brainer to increase
> horizontal margins at least to 12 mm (although 15 seems indeed quite
> ok for me).  Depending on how long it would take Kieren to get to this
> (2 weeks or 2 months?)

Could be the latter…  =\

Let’s put it this way: a quick survey of various scores from "the good  
houses”
(Barenreiter, Henle, Peters, etc.) reveal a minimum [!!]  
side-margin-to-width
ratio of 16mm:225mm = ~0.071, or 15.3mm proportionally on a U.S. letter  
page.
So I think 15mm would be a fine place to start.

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