Hi David,
Am 16.10.24 um 23:03 schrieb David Sumbler:
I am setting a series of items for a single melody instrument (i.e.
using one stave). These items are generally quite short and will fit
on one page. Sometimes I can even get 2 on a page.
But a few of them require 2 pages, and naturally I try to arrange
things so that they cover a left-hand page and a right-hand page in
that order.
At the head of each item I have a markup which takes up something like
2 cm. of space. I would like to create a similar empty space on the
right-hand page of a 2-page item, so that the first stave of the 2nd
page is roughly lined up with the top stave on the left-hand page.
I can't add a markup in the middle of a score unless it is somehow
attached to a stave. I could perhaps do something like create an
invisible staccato dot on a note in the top stave of the page, and
give it an extreme Y-offset.
But I can't help feeling there must be a more elegant and orthodox way
of doing what I want. Suggestions, please?
Maybe something like this?
\version "2.24.0"
\paper {
top-system-spacing.padding = #(* 2 cm (/ 1 staff-space))
}
\markup \column { My multi- line heading. }
\new Staff {
\repeat unfold 1000 { c'4 }
}
There's also top-markup-spacing and markup-system-spacing. Lately I tend
to rely on these variables for layout control, but I think it would be
desirable to have even more control (namely the possibility to override
these settings for specific scores and markups).
Lukas
