On 2019-02-04 4:06 am, Andrew Bernard wrote:
Hi Aaron,
Thanks for taking so much care with this answer. But there's a problem.
The
viola solo in this (New Complexity) score for a quartet is incredibly
dense
and fills the whole page to the point that I have to have zero bottom
margin. There's very high ledger notes and very low ones, so that
staves
are large of necessity. I'd do it as a book part, but the problem here
is
that everything in this score ties across bars and pages, and I don't
see
how to carry ties across voices between bookparts. This is the basis on
which my query was formed.
I must confess I have no working knowledge of New Complexity, but is
there no way for you to use ottava to reduce the extents of ledger
lines? This could potentially reduce the overall vertical footprint of
the music without needing to adjust margins.
You mention there is no bottom margin, but does that mean the entire
page full of music? If so, there is little to be done save for scaling
the music down or using larger paper.
But assuming there is still a top margin, that means there is space to
be used and distributed across the page. Stretchability allows you to
set the actual margins to much smaller than you are currently using but
end up with effectively large margins because LilyPond puts the excess
space where you want it. This being automatic means it is ideal for
scores with many pages as you do not need manual effort (other than
reviewing for correctness).
I did not mention it before; but you can adjust the stretchability so
that LilyPond favors the top margin over the bottom if that is your
intention. Take my example from before and try lowering the
stretchability of last-bottom-spacing a little at a time.
-- Aaron Hill
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