Hi Jay,
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:17 PM, wjm <mooney...@aim.com> wrote:
> On 30/06/12 15:45, Jay Hamilton wrote:
>
>> I actually tried a \paper block and to no avail so that's why I'm stumped.
>> I tried it in layout and outside in its' own block nada.
>> I'll reread the section you suggest but there's just something askew...
>> Thanks for responding.
>> Jay
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:56 PM, wjm <mooney...@aim.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jay,
>>> I think you need to set a \paper section to contain your page margins
>>> bits.
>>> The NR says
>>>
>>> "The \paper variables that can appear in a \layout block are:
>>> line-width, ragged-right and ragged-last (see \paper variables for widths
>>> and margins)
>>> indent and short-indent (see \paper variables for shifts and indents)
>>> system-count (see \paper variables for line breaking)"
>>>
>>> A good read of Section 4.1 of the Notation Reference shows what goes
>>> where...
>>> Hope this helps
>>> Regards
>>> Bill
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Hi Jay,
> Try placing the following immediately after the line
> #(ly:set-option 'delete-intermediate-files #t)
> in your file.
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%**%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> #(set-default-paper-size "letter" 'landscape)
>
> #(set-global-staff-size 16)
> %{
> This set to 16, rather than 20, since 20 gives a compilation error about
> being unable to fit music on the page - compressing music to fit.
> Probably because you have so many instruments :)
> %}
>
> \paper
> {
> indent = 30 %these are, by default, mm
> short-indent = 25
> %left-margin = 30
> right-margin = 20
> top-margine = 10
> bottom-margin = 10
> }
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%**%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> Adjust values to suit.
>
> Also, move the \layout block outside the \score block and delete 'all' its
> content
>
> Hope this helps/works!
Also note that you've misspelled "top-margin".
-David
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