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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