Re: How to set a fixed distance between upper page edge and top line of first staff?

[Karlin High]

On 7/30/2019 12:21 PM, kimfierens wrote:
> To be honest, it seems a bit disappointing that a sophisticated piece of
> software (which LilyPond obviously is) seems unable to accomplish what the
> 18th century engraver probably took no more than a ruler and some elbow
> grease.

LilyPond probably CAN do it somehow. It can even be used a graphical 
drawing app if someone desires. Examples in this thread:

<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2018-12/msg00125.html>

The question is more about how much effort people are willing to put 
into their project, and whether they want a one-off, ad hoc result or 
something more generalized and elegant.

Oh, and I just remembered this thing from David Nalesnik...

<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2018-01/msg00107.html>

...that generates a music lesson worksheet. It has a table definition of 
some sort that might be interesting for your use case. It's WAAAY over 
my head, I don't know how it works.
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Karlin High
Missouri, USA