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> From: Jim Duke <j...@dukeboys.org>
> To: "Lilypond User (lilypond-user@gnu.org)" <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
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> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 14:39:13 +0000
> Subject: Advice about layout / page formatting
> I'm seeking advice on how to approach typesetting some hymns for use in
> worship. The music in our worship is A Capella congregational singing, and
> we use both sheet music, which we put in folders in the pews, and slides,
> which we project on a large screen at the front of the auditorium. For
> each hymn I want to produce a PDF of the sheet music, a set of PNG files
> for each of the slides, and a MIDI file to aid in teaching the hymns to the
> congregation.
>
> ...
>
> First, on the first slide of every verse I put a title at the top with the
> name of the song and the song number in our hymal. On following slides
> from the same verse, there is no title. But, I'd like the first system on
> every slide to start at the same place on the page. As we present the
> slides the movement of the systems around on the page is distracting. I'd
> like to fix them on the page if I could. Because of how large I want the
> fonts to be, I typically can fit two systems on each page. I have no idea
> how to accomplish that. Is there a parameter that directly controls the
> distance from the top of the page to the first system?
>
I was going through old digests and didn't see this part of your question
answered.
There are a pair of variables that influence where the music starts on the
page: one for the first page, and one for all the others. I say
"influence" since I think these are offsets from the header, not an
absolute position on the page.
I typically set these in a paper block overrides within a book, since I
often have to (or want to) tweak these on per-book basis.
Included are some other page layout variables I tend to use.
\book {
\paper {
top-margin = #10
right-margin = #17
% First page spacing after header
markup-system-spacing #'padding = #6
% Subsequent page spacing after header
top-system-spacing #'minimum-distance = #14
% Spacing in between systems
system-system-spacing #'minimum-distance = #13
}
\score {
...
}
}
HTH,
David Elaine Alt
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highly underrated*"
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