Re: Score spacing

2010-03-24 Thread Graham Percival
Fix your rhythmic errors. Add some bar checks to see where you have an incorrect duration. - Graham On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 07:16:31PM +, Josh wrote: > Hello, > > I've read over the manual but with my latest score I'm having trouble with > the > spacing. When I compile > the score it p

Re: Score spacing.

2004-02-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
In my opinion, the biggest problem with the vertical spacing in LilyPond today, is the use of rectangular boxes around each stave to determine the spacing. The attached example illustrates what I have in mind. Unfortunately, it seems very complicated to improve this situation (TeX/LaTeX, for exampl

Re: Score spacing.

2004-02-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Actually, I have found just the opposite: the staves are *rarely* > exactly equidistant! And this is especially true from page to page (as > opposed to within a block of staves on one page): the staves expand and > contract to accommodate the material. (I just confirm

RE: Score spacing.

2004-02-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > With that in mind, is there an easy way of "locking" the interstaff > distance within a system so that all pages are consistent, even given > that there may be overlaps which I can correct by tweaking? You can use the verticalExtent property to force the extents of the

Re: Score spacing.

2004-02-02 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hello, Ralph: If I look at professionally produced stuff, within a system, the staves are always equidistant. Actually, I have found just the opposite: the staves are *rarely* exactly equidistant! And this is especially true from page to page (as opposed to within a block of staves on one page):

Re: Score spacing.

2004-02-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Ralph Little wrote: Hi, Thanks for that. I have resorted to lilypond-book in the end to squeeze the maximum amount of space from the paper, which wasn't as painful as I thought it would be! My main problem seems to be that If I look at professionally produced stuff, within a system, the staves ar

Re: Score spacing.

2004-02-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Did you notice the text on interscoreline and interscorelinefill at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Page-layout.html#Page%20layout You might also want to fiddle with the textheight variable. /Mats Ralph Little wrote: Hi, I am having a problem with a score which,

RE: Score spacing.

2004-02-02 Thread Ralph Little
requirement from page to page. Regards, Ralph -Original Message- From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 February 2004 11:44 To: Ralph Little Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Score spacing. Did you notice the text on interscoreline and interscorelinefill at htt