On Tue 13 Feb 2018 at 21:41:01 (+0100), Urs Liska wrote: > I know that the music can't be properly printed with the given > combination of paper size, margins and staffsize. But I want > LilyPond to prefer the solution with two systems per page (in this > example) because the compressed variant is *really* inacceptable. > > Using further paper variables is of no help either. Of course, if > I'd want to engrave that certain piece I'd experiment along these > lines too, but that's not what I'm after. > I'm working on a LaTeX package that includes scores in text > documents and matches the layout as good as possible. > While it is trivial to set the margins to exactly match the LaTeX > ones I don't really like that solution because the pages will look > uneven when the top margin does not match the stafflines but the > top-most element. What I would like to achieve is something like > this: > https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1812148/35498550-1780de08-04cf-11e8-9553-2bb1aabbe33e.png > > And actually it was possible to achieve it by fixing the margins of > the staff, but it turns out that this will often result in > absolutely inacceptable global spacing of the score. > > Does all that finally mean I'll have to experiment with all the > elements of the paper variables until I find something that promises > to work generically (i.e. when I don't know the actual music and > page layout beforehand)?
IIRC you're setting quartets, so two systems of 4 staves on each page. Can you not just set their vertical positions explicitly as outlined in §4.4.2 of NR. This might give a very uniform appearance. \overrideProperty Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn.line-break-system-details #'((Y-offset . 0)) Other than that, my only suggestion is a workflow of one system per page into a PDF → cropping (pdfcrop) → burst pages → \includegraphics (in LaTeX) which gives you more vertical control of the systems. But I might have suggested that already, to you or somebody else. Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
