[Fwd-ing to the mailing list] 2008/12/11 Didi & MiMi Kanjahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Valentin,
Greetings, > I am still a bit frustrated with the automatic spacing of Lilypond. > I wish I could have a bit more control over it. Most of these problems would > be fine when creating just a sheet for one hymn or song, but when you want to > create a songbook with 160 of them you want to pack them rather a bit tighter > to save pages. Sometimes I can see that the last staff could fit on the > previous page, but I have no means to move it back. I'm wondering about > buying an Adobe suit, hoping that it might be able to edit the .pdf files in > this way. Corel Draw X4 failed to be able to interpret the Lilypond .pdf > files correctly. I certainly hope you will not have to edit the PDF files! Have you tried using \noPageBreak? See http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/user/lilypond/Page-breaking.html In the latest version (2.11.65) there's a new \bookpart feature that could help you as well; See at the bottom of the following page: http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/user/lilypond/Multiple-scores-in-a-book.html Each \bookpart { } block can have its own \paper {} block, and therefore you can specify different parameters (different values for between-system-padding, etc). http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/user/lilypond/Page-formatting.html Finally, if \markup \null gives you too much space, you can use Nicolas Sceaux's \vspace command: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=368 Just paster the following definition in your file: #(define-markup-command (vspace layout props amount) (number?) "This produces a invisible object taking vertical space." (let ((amount (* amount 3.0))) (if (> amount 0) (ly:make-stencil "" (cons -1 1) (cons 0 amount)) (ly:make-stencil "" (cons -1 1) (cons amount amount))))) ... Then you can have \markup \vspace #3 \markup \vspace #0.3 or even \markup \vspace #-3 if you want a "negative" space! I'm certain you will eventually find how to obtain the correct output. Cheers, Valentin _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
