Re: page layout

2012-09-05 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 5 September 2012 19:18, wrote: > Hi all, > > I’m quite new to lilypond and currently workng on some madrigals ( choir > with 6 voices ) from the 16th century. The barlines are set between staves > only. > > The output of lilypond is really beautiful. But the page layout could have > some more

Re: page layout

2012-09-05 Thread Marek Klein
2012/9/5 > Do you think the property strechability would do the job? > > > I don't know what exactly you want to achieve, but there is for example the top-system-spacing, which you can use to shift the first system lower: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/flexible-vertical-

Re: page layout

2012-09-05 Thread Marek Klein
Hello 2012/9/5 > ** > > The output of lilypond is really beautiful. But the page layout could > have some more tweaking. > > There are 6 staves per system and 2 systems per page > > The first page is really perfect. Title and subtitle and the 2 systems > are using the available space of the page

Re: Page layout issues setting Preces & Responses (or, how to remove line breaks between \score blocks)

2012-01-19 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 20 January 2012 10:29, Benedict Singer wrote: > On 01/19/2012 01:32 PM, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: >> >> On Jan 19, 2012, at 10:19 PM, Benedict Singer wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I've been away from Lilypond for a while (I used it as a composer to set >>> my pieces, and composition has take

Re: Page layout issues setting Preces & Responses (or, how to remove line breaks between \score blocks)

2012-01-19 Thread Benedict Singer
On 01/19/2012 01:32 PM, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: On Jan 19, 2012, at 10:19 PM, Benedict Singer wrote: Hi all, I've been away from Lilypond for a while (I used it as a composer to set my pieces, and composition has taken a back seat for a few years). I just want to say that looking at the

Re: Page layout issues setting Preces & Responses (or, how to remove line breaks between \score blocks)

2012-01-19 Thread James
Hello, On 19 January 2012 21:32, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: > > On Jan 19, 2012, at 10:19 PM, Benedict Singer wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've been away from Lilypond for a while (I used it as a composer to set my >> pieces, and composition has taken a back seat for a few years). I just want >>

Re: Page layout issues setting Preces & Responses (or, how to remove line breaks between \score blocks)

2012-01-19 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Jan 19, 2012, at 10:19 PM, Benedict Singer wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been away from Lilypond for a while (I used it as a composer to set my > pieces, and composition has taken a back seat for a few years). I just want > to say that looking at the new features in 2.14 (and in 2.12 before tha

Re: page layout syntax

2011-01-05 Thread MING TSANG
:47:59 -0800 (PST) From: -Eluze Subject: Re: page layout syntax To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Message-ID: <30597251.p...@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ymingt wrote: > > I try to format the page layout. It seems that it doesn't work. > 1. Is it th

Re: page layout syntax

2011-01-05 Thread MING TSANG
Thank you. I shall applied it to my score sheet. From: Xavier Scheuer To: MING TSANG Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wed, January 5, 2011 11:24:28 AM Subject: Re: page layout syntax On 5 January 2011 16:13, MING TSANG wrote: > > [...] > > 2.

Re: page layout syntax

2011-01-05 Thread MING TSANG
I use version "2.13.45". I made the correction and re-compiled again and I did not see any difference. Sorry for the typo. From: Phil Holmes To: MING TSANG ; lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wed, January 5, 2011 10:55:27 AM Subject: Re: page lay

Re: page layout syntax

2011-01-05 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 5 January 2011 16:13, MING TSANG wrote: > > [...] > > 2. Is possible to make one of the staff line in color or heavier (bold)? Hi, Coloring individual staff lines http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=700 Making some staff lines thicker than the others http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=277

Re: page layout syntax

2011-01-05 Thread Phil Holmes
Could you confirm which version you're using, please? Your file says 2.12.44, which doesn't exist. -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: MING TSANG To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 3:13 PM Subject: page layout syntax I try to format the p

Re: page layout syntax

2011-01-05 Thread -Eluze
ymingt wrote: > > I try to format the page layout. It seems that it doesn't work. > 1. Is it the right way of doing this? I change the (headsep, > beforetitlespace, > aftertitlespace, > > between-system-space) to different number and after compile, it looks the > same. > all the variable

Re: Page layout for piano four hands

2010-05-09 Thread u_li
I'm sorry to read that. Anyway, to keep things as simple as possible, I will put the page breaks in a variable in a separate file. Then I will be able to switch them easily by just commenting (out) a few \include lines when changing layout. (Just in case someone else stumbles on this post ...)

Re: Page layout for piano four hands

2010-05-09 Thread Gilles THIBAULT
Is there a way to produce such a kind of parallel page breaking automatically? Alas no. Perhaps you can get some tricks in the archives http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/ with search-key "piano four hands" You 'll probably need some tools like that : http://www.angusj.com/pdftk

Re: page layout

2010-01-06 Thread -Eluze
contingo1 wrote: > > > Is there a way to set up A4 paper size in 'landscape' format? > > yes, just look for 'landscape' in the NR and you'll find #(set-default-paper-size "a4" 'landscape) which you can include in the beginning of your lilypond file! -- View this message in context: http:/

Re: Page layout problem 2.13.4

2009-10-11 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/10/10 Nick Payne : > There's definitely something wrong with the page formatting in the 2.13.4 > version I have installed on Windows. I download the setting of Traümerei > from the Mutopia Project web site: There are two features of this example which aren't helping: 1. The explicit Dynamics

Re: Page layout - move score blocks

2007-07-19 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/7/18, Charlotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi all, Forgive a newbie's potentially stupid question. This is my first excursion into Lily, or Scheme, or LaTeX etc. - or in fact anything remotely Unix. I'm running LY on both my Windoze XP machine, and my OSX Mac. I'm using LP to typeset a set of Pr

Re: page layout

2007-06-25 Thread Graham Percival
We have fixed over a hundred bugs since 2.10.5, including many that affect the spacing system. I highly recommend that you upgrade to the latest version, 2.10.27, and see if that helps. If it doesn't help, see our bug page: http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/bugs Cheers, - Graham M

Re: page layout

2006-12-29 Thread Matevž Jekovec
Thanks, it works! I added breakbefore = ##t to \header in \score block and the score began on a new page. Regards. - Matevž Arvid Grøtting pravi: > Matevž Jekovec gmail.com> writes: > > >> I'd like to have the first page introductory one (title, author, lyrics, >> its translation etc.) an

Re: page layout

2006-12-29 Thread Arvid Grøtting
Matevž Jekovec gmail.com> writes: > I'd like to have the first page introductory one (title, author, lyrics, > its translation etc.) and the next pages the score itself. I'm using > \book for this but I can't force the very first staff to be on the > second page - it's always on the first one, a

Re: Page Layout Staff Spacing ?

2006-08-08 Thread joelinux
Not understanding exactly what to do, I think I will just do one page at a time, and start a whole new .ly file for each additional page. -Original Message- >From: "Rick Hansen (aka RickH)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Aug 6, 2006 5:24 PM >To: lilypond-user@g

Re: Page Layout Staff Spacing ?

2006-08-06 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
Once you get the spacing close to where you want it, then make adjustments to between system space and between system padding in very small steps to get it just right. I first try to get the padding right by setting between system space to -1 (negative one) to neutralize it, then adjust between s

RE: Page layout frustration (+ documentation note)

2006-05-31 Thread Fairchild
--Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 7:32 AM To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Page layout frustration (+ documentation note) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &

Re: Page layout frustration (+ documentation note)

2006-05-24 Thread lilypond
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 8:15 AM > > > > I'm trying to fit a piece of music onto one page. By default, lily > > formats it as 11 systems, 10 on the first page, 1 on the second. So I > > told lily to fit it in 10 systems - which it nicel

Re: Page layout frustration

2006-05-23 Thread Joe Neeman
On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 14:15 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to fit a piece of music onto one page. By default, lily > formats it as 11 systems, 10 on the first page, 1 on the second. So I > told lily to fit it in 10 systems - which it nicely laid out as 9 on the > first page, 1 on the

Re: Page layout frustration

2006-05-23 Thread Richard Schoeller
Some things you might want to check out... 1. You really can tweak the margins. 2. In your paper block you can set between-system-padding . I find that setting to 2 or 3 can sometimes compress things enough, even 1. 3. You might want to look at how much padding you have on any rehearsal mark

Re: Page layout frustration

2006-05-23 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Walter wrote: annotate-spacing = ##t For someone as geeky and obsessive-compulsive as I, this is one of the coolest applications of technology that I've seen since www.visualthesaurus.com>. Way to go, Lilypond Team! Thanks, Kieren. ___ lilypo

Re: Page layout frustration

2006-05-23 Thread Walter Hofmeister
On 5/23/06 7:15 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to fit a piece of music onto one page. By default, lily > formats it as 11 systems, 10 on the first page, 1 on the second. So I > told lily to fit it in 10 systems - which it nicely laid out as 9 on the > first page, 1

Re: Page layout frustration

2006-05-23 Thread Stephen
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 8:15 AM I'm trying to fit a piece of music onto one page. By default, lily formats it as 11 systems, 10 on the first page, 1 on the second. So I told lily to fit it in 10 systems - which it nicely laid out as 9 on the first page, 1 on the s

Re: Page Layout Help

2005-05-23 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
Hi Ted, try replacing "bottommaragin" with "bottommargin" :-) Thomas > I have been typesetting some renaissance choir music with beautiful > results, except for the overall page layout. It would be great if the > manual could have some more information about page layout and complete > working

RE: Page Layout Help

2005-05-22 Thread Fairchild
Ted - Try this structure, which works in v 2.4.3, somewhat unpredictably: % \paper { betweensystempadding = -.10\in betweensystemspace = 0.30\in }%end paper \score { \layout { \context { \Staff minimumVerticalExtent = #

Re: Page Layout Help (Ted Fulk)

2005-05-22 Thread Erik Ronström
> In the following example, I told \paper what I would like the bottom > margin > to be, but it always ignores it and prints almost to the bottom of > the page. You have a typo there: your example says "bottommaragin" instead of "bottommargin". Hope it helps! Regards Erik

Re: Page layout, Was: default lyrics font ?

2005-04-14 Thread Paul Crabbe
Le 14 avr. 05, à 13:34, Mats Bengtsson a écrit : Paul Crabbe wrote: Le 13 avr. 05, à 15:41, Mats Bengtsson a écrit : >What LilyPond version? >At least for LilyPond 2.2 and 2.4, you get the same font if you do >\fontseries{b}\selectfont >(the normal boldface font in LaTeX is 'extended bold' whi

Re: Page layout

2005-02-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
lilypond-book will typeset the scores using the linewidth used in the rest of the LaTeX document, so just use ordinary LaTeX commands to specify the page layout you wish. I would recommend the geometry package. Run the command texdoc geometry to view the documentation (I'm not sure if the documenta

Re: Page layout problems

2004-11-08 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Thanks for your reply. Someone else on this list pointed me to the Page Layout section. I've been able to kludge together something that does the job, like you describe. Looks pretty good, apart from a few niggles. A little bit of playing around with these new commands might get me the result I'

Re: Page layout problems

2004-11-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Why not set the leftmargin or rightmargin, see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Page-layout.html#Page-layout The page layout handling has changed completely since version 2.2, so don't try to use your old solutions. /Mats Cameron Horsburgh wrote: I have the follow

Re: Page layout problems, revisited

2004-09-17 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Nicholas Haggin writes: > The music in question is an organ piece of > my own composition, and is intended to be printed landscape on US letter > (8 1/2 in x 11 in) paper. Landscape was re-implemented only in 2.3.15. Use #(set-default-paper-size "letter" 'landscape) I don't think this has been

Re: page layout

2002-10-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You can set the vertical space used for the music with \paper{ textheight = 285.\mm } or whatever height you want. /Mats > I have a piece which Lilypond has typset on 26 systems. The systems are > spread across four pages: 7+8+8+2. There is ample room on the pages for > these systems to b