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

[Aaron Hill]

On 2019-07-30 10:21 am, kimfierens wrote:
> Unfortunately none of your proposed solutions produced entirely 
> satisfactory
> results. For some odd reason, the one note examples work pretty well, 
> but as
> soon as more notes are added to a staff, the staffs are whacked out of
> alignment.

It would be helpful to see precisely what you are trying and the results 
you are getting.  Simply saying "more notes are added" and "whacked out 
of alignment" leaves us having to guess at what might be going wrong.

> Additionally, I find it difficult to get all the snippets equal width.

Set paper and line width appropriately with ragged-right set to false.  
Consider:

%%%%
\version "2.19.83"

#(set-global-staff-size 20)
\paper {
  #(set! paper-alist (cons '("custom" . (cons (* 1.5 in) (* 40 pt))) 
paper-alist))
  #(set-paper-size "custom")
  top-margin = 0 bottom-margin = 0 indent = 0
  line-width = 1.5\in ragged-right = ##f
  oddHeaderMarkup = ##f evenHeaderMarkup = ##f tagline = ##f
  top-system-spacing =
    #'( (basic-distance . 0) (minimum-distance . 4)
        (padding . -100) (stretchability . 0) )
  last-bottom-spacing =
    #'( (basic-distance . 0) (minimum-distance . 0)
        (padding . -100) (stretchability . 0) )
}

music = { \time 3/4 c'4 g' d'' | a''2. \bar "|." }
\score { \transpose c' g \music }
\score { \transpose c' c' \music }
\score { \transpose c' f' \music }
%%%%

Results attached for reference.


-- Aaron Hill

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