At Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:07:06 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arvid Grøtting) wrote: > > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > At Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:13:03 -0300, > > "Han-Wen Nienhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> And a typographic nit: the margins seem rather on the small side. > >> Have you done the page layout yourself? I recommend copying margins > >> from reknowned publications. > > > > I know :( I made an early decision to stick to DIN A5, as most pieces > > are short and this also comes close to the original format. > > Out of curiosity: What exactly is the original format?
The facsimile edition I have here is printed on 13.5cm x 20.5cm, but if the following scan is not cropped, then it would be more like 12.8cm x 20cm: http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/allen/sstp.jpg I can't make sense out of any of this. Maybe half of "Quarto" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size)? > > Work arounds: Printing on a larger (non-standard) paper size or > > shrinking the pages before printing. > > 6x9" would be too close to A5 to gain much. B5 is probably a bit on > the large side, but a nice general paper size for music. B5 sounds like a nice idea. Depending on the binding, it might not even be on the large side (or is the space needed for the binding added extra in such calculations?). > > I guess the moral of the story is that DIN A5 is not a good page size > > for staffsize 18. > > Or, conversely, that staffsize 18 is too large for A5. > > I typeset choral music, so my constraints are different than yours, > but I use staff-size 18 for A4. I've used smaller, too, for A4. > > If A5 isn't too small a page size, you could probably get by with a > staff-size as small 13 or 14, which is smaller than you need to get > wider margins. You have a point there. It's over-due that I make some test print outs. Thanks, Marcus _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
