Re: Creating space at the top of a page

2024-10-19 Thread David Sumbler
Thank you both for your helpful replies.  I now have things working just as I had hoped. David On Fri, 2024-10-18 at 07:03 -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi David, > > As Xavier points out: > > It's not odd-header-markup but oddHeaderMarkup (same for even). > > I also thought I would just off

Re: Creating space at the top of a page

2024-10-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, As Xavier points out: > It's not odd-header-markup but oddHeaderMarkup (same for even). I also thought I would just offer this snippet, which shows a possible structure using bookpart: %%% SNIPPET BEGINS \version "2.24.3" %% GLOBAL PAPER DEFINITIONS \paper { oddHeaderMarkup = \m

Re: Creating space at the top of a page

2024-10-18 Thread David Sumbler
On Fri, 2024-10-18 at 12:56 +0200, Xavier Scheuer wrote: > On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 at 12:48, David Sumbler > wrote: > > > > One of these 2 solutions would almost certainly work for me, if > only I could get the basics sorted out.  But after a lot of > experimentation, I cannot get one header on page 1

Re: Creating space at the top of a page

2024-10-18 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 at 12:48, David Sumbler wrote: > > One of these 2 solutions would almost certainly work for me, if only I could get the basics sorted out. But after a lot of experimentation, I cannot get one header on page 1 and another on page 2. Clearly I am doing something fundamentally w

Re: Creating space at the top of a page

2024-10-18 Thread David Sumbler
On Thu, 2024-10-17 at 13:32 -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > Hi David, > > > > So, for example, I would like the following: > > > Page 1, containing items 1 and 2: header shows '1&2' > > > Pages 2-3, each containing a single item: headers show '3' and > > > '4' > > > respectively > > > Pages 4-5,

Re: Creating space at the top of a page

2024-10-17 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, >> So, for example, I would like the following: >> Page 1, containing items 1 and 2: header shows '1&2' >> Pages 2-3, each containing a single item: headers show '3' and '4' >> respectively >> Pages 4-5, containing item 5 spread over the 2 pages: headers show '5' >> and '(5)' >> I don't

Re: Creating space at the top of a page

2024-10-17 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi David, But even what I asked for isn't what I would really like in a perfect world, which is as follows. The items are numbered sequentially, starting with number 1.  At the top of each page, I would like to have (in fairly large print) the number(s) of the item(s) contained on that page, pl

Re: Creating space at the top of a page

2024-10-17 Thread David Sumbler
Thank you for the suggestions so far (one of them was off-list).  They should enable me to do what I asked for, i.e. to leave a blank space at the top of certain right-hand pages. But even what I asked for isn't what I would really like in a perfect world, which is as follows. The items are numbe

Re: Creating space at the top of a page

2024-10-16 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi David, Am 16.10.24 um 23:03 schrieb David Sumbler: I am setting a series of items for a single melody instrument (i.e. using one stave).  These items are generally quite short and will fit on one page.  Sometimes I can even get 2 on a page. But a few of them require 2 pages, and naturally I

Creating space at the top of a page

2024-10-16 Thread David Sumbler
I am setting a series of items for a single melody instrument (i.e. using one stave).  These items are generally quite short and will fit on one page.  Sometimes I can even get 2 on a page. But a few of them require 2 pages, and naturally I try to arrange things so that they cover a left-hand page