Hi,
what is the reason that the default margins are so small?
They are (top/botton, left/right | inner/outer in mm):
5/6, 10/10 | 10/20
If I compare to printed scores, they are usually larger:
Edition Peters: 10/12, 17/17
Boosey & Hawkes: 11/24, 14/14
I understand the goal to save space for the music content.
But there are some drawbacks:
- most printers cannot print so close to the paper edge
(especially top/bottom)
- this either cuts into the printed page content
- or requires to scale the content while printing
- it looks too squeezed (cf. the simple example below)
- it is non-standard compared to most publishers
In addition the top-markup-spacing is 0 which makes the title look very
squashed to the top. I would prefer something around 4 or 5 mm (or one
text line height).
I see that this has been discussed before in 2009:
http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/default-margins-tp44740p44741.html
with margin measurments for many publishers but without a visible
conclusion for Lilypond.
There is now (or some time ago) a Mutopia discussion whether larger
margins should be enforced or not:
https://github.com/chrissawer/The-Mutopia-Project/issues/141
but I think if LilyPond delivered printable default settings, this would
be the best solution.
I have no reference book on this at hand, but my proposal is:
10/15 15/15 | 10/20
and a top-markup-spacing basic-distance of about 4\mm.
Could this be added to the issue tracker?
Cheers,
Joram
% show the header placement
\version "2.18.0"
\header {
title = "A Default Title"
composer = "The Composer"
opus = "Op. 1"
piece = "Part 1"
}
\paper {
% top-markup-spacing.basic-distance = 3
}
{ a1 \break a }
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