Hi Giles, please copy the list: it helps others, and you might get better advice than I can offer.
Thoughts interspersed below... On Wed, 2024-05-08 at 07:56 +0000, Giles Boardman wrote: > Hello Graham, > > This is perfect, except it only affects the last line. The lines wrap > and the rests are where they should be in relation to the rest of the > notes, but only the portion on the last line has been re-spaced. Do you have this line? \paper { ragged-right = ##t } > It sounds like you might have ragged-last = ##t set somewhere. > I'm going to look at treating each line in the original as a new > piece of music. That sounds like a difficult way to set about things. \break is your friend, once we've solved the problem above. > Then I could mimic the original layout, which would be the best > solution for comparison anyway. So far I've mainly been working on > getting data into Lilypond so I can see whathappens ot it when I stat > to play around, so any suggestions as to how to go about this and > what to be looking for in the documentation would be most welcome. I'm not sure I understand what you're asking here. For keeping changes under control, a revision control system such as git is invaluable. For searching the documentation, the index in the back of the Notation Reference (NR) is invaluable. And the Snippets Repository at https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/ and the mailing list archive at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/ can be very helpful. > > Best > > Giles > <snip>