> From: Reinhold Kainhofer: > > On Mittwoch, 18. März 2009 12:29:42 Pekka Siponen wrote: > > The default margins for a4 seem a little too narrow. The normal I see in > > scores is about 2 cm wide. > > I concur. On most scores I have seen, the margins are larger than LilyPond's > (although I have not explicitly measured them).
I have! At one point I was frustrated by this very issue and went through my score library with a ruler. Valentin mentioned "precise" measurements, but to my surprise, measured values from any one publisher deviated quite a lot from score to score, sometimes from page to page. I even recall a couple of instances where the line-width at the top of a page was several mm shorter from the line-width at the bottom of the page. Also, the printed matter was not always consistently centered on the page. Thus in most cases, my reported values for top- and bottom-margin are the same (per publisher), representing a vertically centered page. So, perhaps there can be no "precise" measurements; though I tried to capture the average measurements as best as I could. By the way, I can easily confirm the wide margins: Peters = 17.75 mm Wiener UE = 20.75 mm Henle = 21.25 mm Schirmer = 21.25 mm One interesting thing to note -- I compared the ratio of paper-width to paper-height for each publisher, and found that all had proportions much closer to the (short and fat) "letter" ratio than to the (tall and skinny) "a4" ratio. w/h ratio: ...tall and skinny... a4 = 0.70707 mm 8.5x12 = 0.70833 mm 9x12 = 0.75 mm Peters = 0.75 mm Henle = 0.75806 mm Wiener UE = 0.76 mm Schirmer = 0.764 mm letter = 0.77273 mm ...short and fat... ___________________________________________________________ Anyway, here are my results: Peters: paper-width = 222 mm paper-height = 297 mm staff-height = 7 mm line-width = 186.5 mm top-margin = 10 mm bottom-margin = 10 mm Henle: paper-width = 235 mm paper-height = 310 mm staff-height = 7 mm line-width = 192.5 mm top-margin = 15 mm bottom-margin = 15 mm Wiener Urtext Edition: paper-width = 230 mm (232 including binding) paper-height = 304 mm staff-height = 6.25 mm line-width = 188.5 mm top-margin = 11 mm bottom-margin = 19 mm Schirmer: paper-width = 230 mm paper-height = 301 mm staff-height = 7 mm line-width = 187.5 mm top-margin = 13 mm bottom-margin = 13 mm Hope this helps! - Mark p.s. should we migrate this to bug- or -devel? _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
