How to set a fixed distance between upper page edge and top line of first staff?

Hi everyone, I'm new to LilyPond, and I have a layout question for you. The title says it all basically: how do I get LilyPond to put a fixed distance between the upper page edge and the top line of the first staff, regardless of any stuff (such as notes on ledger lines) that might stick out above

Re: Colored box behind a single note

>> Ideally, I would like to write >> >> \genericSpan <...parameters ...> >> e\startGroup\endGroup >> >> but since `\genericSpan' uses a `HorizontalBracket' grob, this >> fails; it needs at least two notes. >> >> I wasn't able to find a suitable solution in the web; IMHO, it >> would be a quite

Re: Strange results from simultaneous RehearsalMarks

> Your code is based on a LSR-snippet, you may try some of the others dealing > with simultaneous RehearsalMarks. In particular: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=735 http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=736 to prin

Re: Strange results from simultaneous RehearsalMarks

Am Sa., 27. Juli 2019 um 18:29 Uhr schrieb Patrick Karl : > I'm running LIlyPond 2.19.81 on a Mac desktop running OSX 10.11.6. > > I'm confused about the warnings generated by the following snippet: > > \version "2.19.81" \score { \new GrandStaff << \new Staff { > c'1\bar