It looks like the topmost voice (the one that starts with a d-sharp) is missing a duration. It should have a 4 after it.
\insert is actually \include, and these are much better to use if you can. If you look at a previous reply of mine, I outline how you might use them. -- Knute Snortum On Sat, Aug 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM Dirck Nagy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lilypond > > I am putting together a book of 6 short preludes. Each was originally > engraved as a separate file. > > When I copy the files into bookparts, one of the files has changed music > spacing. The other pieces seem OK. > > FYI, I am copying and pasting the elements of the score into the > bookparts, because I havent figured out how to use \insert yet. > > Does anyone have any ideas where I should look to find the problem? I > would be happy to send the files, but they are a thousand lines of code. > > I already tried setting the default paper size at the beginning of the > book. Is there a "page margins" setting somewhere that could be affecting > this? > >
