On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:04:29AM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: > > > From: Graham Percival > > A priori, I would say that changing margins are **not** a good > > idea... but since professional typesetters do it, and I never > > noticed myself in 25 years of music-playing, I have to admit that > > maybe it's a good idea. > > I don't get the sense that professional typesetters changed > margins **intentionally**. I assume it had to do with the > mechanical process. As an example, I've read that some > measurements were traditionally taken by swinging a compass > back and forth across a page...
I don't know about that. My brother was convinced that they *did* do it deliberately (at least in the case of vertical margins) for page turns; he was surprised that this wasn't one of the basic features in lilypond, given our care about producing great manuscripts. He's only a violinist, though; no experience at composition or typesetting. Unfortunately I'm approximately 13 thousand km away from my scores, so I can't check. But it makes sense, and would explain why I find much more variation in the space between systems in lilypond (with good page turns) than in orchestral music (with good page turns). I mean, there aren't *that* many rests in cello and violin music; it's not like we're wind instruments. :) Thanks for the links; I'll check them out later (probably in 2 months). Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
