On 10/23/2018 12:06 PM, Massimiliano Viel wrote:
Hello everyone!
I’m a composer that after having spent a lot of years with Finale
decided to move to a better sw for music writing and wanted to embrace
Lilypond.
Which is beautiful… but!
I’m really spending more time banging my head on the wall and trying
to getting a sense of the manual (which is complete and well written
but… very hard to parse if you go just a little in detail), than
composing music.
And of course I cannot allow myself to do it, because it’s my work.
Sorry for the surge, but I want to still give a chance to Lilypond
before using a graphic sw to fix it or worse getting sadly back to Finale…
This is my problem, as you see in the image:
1) how can I separate more my name from the music?
You can use markup for this and customize it to your liking.
i.e.
\header {
title = \markup \center-column { "Title here" \vspace #.5 }
composer = \markup \center-column { "Composer Name" \vspace #2.5 }
}
{ \repeat unfold 20 {c'2 c'2 } }
2) how can I separate the notes from the bar?
And why the b is not in the middle between the c and the a?!
It is frustrating because, while in Finale it is very elementary to
fix these, in Lilypond I couldn’t find a way that didn’t assume I know
the manual by heart.
Moreover it seems that I cannot do a proper layout of the score
because with /system-system-spacing #'basic-distance / it seems I
cannot choose an appropriate distance between systems: changing the
value only makes the score to change from occupying one page and a
half to occupying three pages, without no middle layout (I want to put
the score in two pages).
Thank you, thank you, thank you! for any support and please excuse the
surge!
Massimiliano
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