Re: Re; Margins- example

[Jay Hamilton]

Thank you this worked with a bit as you suggested of fidgeting.  The one 'other' issue I have is that any staff size larger than 16 the 'copyright' is covered by the bass notes.  I know that I could change stem direction for those few measures however then I'm going to run into problems with the stems for the cello overlapping.  I tried a couple of things to put space above the markup of the copyright but nothing I tried worked.

Also, one of you said that you got compiling errors?  I never got anything as an error message.  So where/how did you see that?

(oh I'm using win7)

These are small small concerns the major fix you have given me.  Much appreciated.

Back to composing.

Jay

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 4:21 AM, David Nalesnik <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Jay,

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:17 PM, wjm <address@hidden> wrote:

On 30/06/12 15:45, Jay Hamilton wrote:

I actually tried a \paper block and to no avail so that's why I'm stumped.
  I tried it in layout and outside in its' own block nada.
I'll reread the section you suggest but there's just something askew...
Thanks for responding.
Jay

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:56 PM, wjm <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Jay,
I think you need to set a \paper section to contain your page margins bits.
The NR says

"The \paper variables that can appear in a \layout block are:
line-width, ragged-right and ragged-last (see \paper variables for widths
and margins)
indent and short-indent (see \paper variables for shifts and indents)
system-count (see \paper variables for line breaking)"

A good read of Section 4.1 of the Notation Reference shows what goes
where...
Hope this helps
Regards
Bill

Hi Jay,
Try placing the following immediately after the line
#(ly:set-option 'delete-intermediate-files #t)
in your file.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
#(set-default-paper-size "letter" 'landscape)

#(set-global-staff-size 16)
%{
This set to 16, rather than 20, since 20 gives a compilation error about being unable to fit music on the page - compressing music to fit.
Probably because you have so many instruments :)
%}

\paper
{
indent = 30 %these are, by default, mm
short-indent = 25
%left-margin = 30
right-margin = 20
top-margine = 10
bottom-margin = 10
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Adjust values to suit.

Also, move the \layout block outside the \score block and delete 'all' its content

Hope this helps/works!

Also note that you've misspelled "top-margin".

-David 

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