RE: Score spacing.

[Ralph Little]

Hi,
Thanks for that.
I have resorted to lilypond-book in the end to squeeze the maximum
amount of space from the paper, which wasn't as painful as I thought it
would be!

My main problem seems to be that If I look at professionally produced
stuff, within a system, the staves are always equidistant. I presume
that somebody has taken the trouble to make sure everything fits and
doesn't overlap within this regime when they placed all of the dynamics
and stuff not in-staff. That way there are no vertical spacing issues.

With that in mind, is there an easy way of "locking" the interstaff
distance within a system so that all pages are consistent, even given
that there may be overlaps which I can correct by tweaking?

I know this is a bit naughty, but I'm sure that a consistently spaced
score page is more pleasing to the eye than one that squeezes and
stretches to requirement from page to page.

Regards,
Ralph

-----Original Message-----
From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: 02 February 2004 11:44
To: Ralph Little
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Score spacing.


Did you notice the text on interscoreline and interscorelinefill at
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Page-la
yout.html#Page%20layout
You might also want to fiddle with the textheight variable.

    /Mats


Ralph Little wrote:
> Hi,
> I am having a problem with a score which, for the most part, fits fine
> onto A4 landscape.
> However, on one page, all the parts are double forte at about the same
> point, and this pushes the staves apart sufficiently to drop the
bottom
> 1 1/2 staves off the bottom. 
> 
> I've fitted the score onto the page by reducing the Staff
> MinimumVerticalExtent, so I guess I'm pushing it.
> As an alternative I can restore the defaults and print onto A3
landscape
> instead (or A4 portrait and suffer having more pages and a bit of
> waste). I have a few options.
> 
> As a general question of style though, I have a professionally
produced
> score which has the same number of staves and fits them all on
> consistently and does not have this problem. Dynamic markings seem
> abnormally small but look OK on a score.
> 
> Am I expecting too much from something that is largely automated (lord
> knows, it does a damn good job!) or are there some tricks to fitting a
> score onto a compact area?
> 
> Ralph
> 
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