Re: Default margins in Letter truncated

Marc Mouries writes: > The doc says here: > http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/the-paper-block > says: "Except when specified otherwise, all \paper variables that > correspond to distances on the page are measured in millimeters, unless a > different unit is specified by the

Re: Default margins in Letter truncated

, the following declaration sets top-margin to ten millimeters: \paper { top-margin = 10 } " -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Default-margins-in-Letter-truncated-tp164683p164711.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at

Re: Default margins in Letter truncated

The doc says here: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/the-paper-block says: "Except when specified otherwise, all \paper variables that correspond to distances on the page are measured in millimeters, unless a different unit is specified by the user. For example, the following

Re: Default margins in Letter truncated

MarcM writes: > I just set annotate-spacing = ##t and it's showing a 2.85 millimeters. > That's pretty small. I don't remember being that small. > > > > I added: > top-margin= 2\cm > > and i

Re: Default margins in Letter truncated

showing a margin of 11.38. Shouldn't it be 20 ? <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n164707/top_margin_2cm.png> -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Default-margins-in-Letter-truncated-tp164683p164707.html Sent from the Us

Re: Default margins in Letter truncated

MarcM wrote: I am wondering if this is an expected behavior or something is wrong my computer and/or printer (HP Officejet Pro). . . . When i print with the default settings the margins are truncated and the only half of the title of the piece is printed. Does your printer maybe have an option

Re: Default margins in Letter truncated

MarcM writes: > I am wondering if this is an expected behavior or something is wrong my > computer and/or printer (HP Officejet Pro). > > My music is set with \paper { #(set-paper-size "letter")} > > I print on a printer on which the default paper is "letter" > > When i print with the default s

Re: Default margins in Letter truncated

- Original Message - From: "MarcM" To: Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2014 5:38 AM Subject: Default margins in Letter truncated I am wondering if this is an expected behavior or something is wrong my computer and/or printer (HP Officejet Pro). My music is set with \paper { #

Default margins in Letter truncated

ings the margins are truncated and the only half of the title of the piece is printed. To print correctly i have to select the option to "print the entire image" which scale the page down to 91%. Is that normal? -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble

Re: best way to make a songbook (was "default margins and lilypond-book")

Now that's what I call a good investment :-) I spent very little time on your case, and in return we get a very valuable resource! I will send you a few comments with private mail later, but thank you for writing this. Best Urs Am 26.03.2013 17:10, schrieb Jeremy Boor: I wrote a blog post

best way to make a songbook (was "default margins and lilypond-book")

I wrote a blog post about my experience making a LaTex/Lilypond songbook using \includepdf (with help from Urs). http://jboor.net/brdm/?p=172 I'm hoping the next person who searches the mailing list for songbook-making finds this. Terminological and any other corrections are welcome. I'll try to

Re: default margins and lilypond-book

Urs Liska writes: > And is your intention to keep the lilypond source inside the LaTeX > document? If that's not explicitely wanted you may have a look at my > musicexamples' package. > Overview: http://www.openlilylib.org/?/musicexamples/ > The links to the project page and download on SourceFor

Re: default margins and lilypond-book

Am 25.03.2013 14:11, schrieb Jeremy Boor: I'm trying to wrestle lilypond-book into making a songbook (while realizing that's in intended [and better] for musicological documents). Can someone direct me to a list of default lilypond values for margins? My goal is to tweak the margins in the laTex

default margins and lilypond-book

I'm trying to wrestle lilypond-book into making a songbook (while realizing that's in intended [and better] for musicological documents). Can someone direct me to a list of default lilypond values for margins? My goal is to tweak the margins in the laTex source file so that they approximate lilypo

Re: default margins

I know this topic has been silent for two weeks, but I just came across this "table of sizes" in my copy of Ted Ross's "The Art of Music Engraving and Processing". Might as well arm ourselves with as much information as we can get, right? - Mark <>_

Re: default margins

In message , Carl D. Sorensen writes It would seem to me that it would be better to set maximum-line-width and minimum-line-width properties. This would then allow the LilyPond spacing engine to try adjusting line-width between those limits to see if it could get better spacing. And by settin

Re: default margins

In message <20090319135340.ga2...@nagi>, Graham Percival writes On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:03:42PM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: I have! At one point I was frustrated by this very issue and went through my score library with a ruler. Valentin mentioned "precise" measurements, but to my surprise,

Re: default margins

On 3/19/09 7:53 AM, "Graham Percival" wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:03:42PM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: >> >> I have! At one point I was frustrated by this very issue >> and went through my score library with a ruler. Valentin >> mentioned "precise" measurements, but to my surprise, >> m

Re: default margins

h and a max-line-width property, just like we now have min-systems and max-systems. > In the short term, I like the idea of changing the default margins > (or at very least making an easy \predefined that has a different > set of margins), but I'd rather wait until summer when I have

Re: default margins

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:04:29AM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: > > > From: Graham Percival > > A priori, I would say that changing margins are **not** a good > > idea... but since professional typesetters do it, and I never > > noticed myself in 25 years of music-playing, I have to admit that > >

Re: default margins

> From: Graham Percival > A priori, I would say that changing margins are **not** a good > idea... but since professional typesetters do it, and I never > noticed myself in 25 years of music-playing, I have to admit that > maybe it's a good idea. Graham, I don't get the sense that professional

Re: default margins

\page #2 { line-width = 150mm } } I might play with this kind of stuff in a year or two... In the short term, I like the idea of changing the default margins (or at very least making an easy \predefined that has a different set of margins), but I'd rather wait until summer when I hav

Re: default margins

The linewidth is always around 190 mm (+-), so this my be the reason for LilyPonds default margins. I'd prefer letter format, but in Germany (Europe?) letter format paper is not easily available. I even more I like 9x12 inch (Breitkopf & Härtel), but even if I found paper in ths format, m

Re: default margins

> From: Reinhold Kainhofer: > > On Mittwoch, 18. März 2009 12:29:42 Pekka Siponen wrote: > > The default margins for a4 seem a little too narrow. The normal I see in > > scores is about 2 cm wide. > > I concur. On most scores I have seen, the margins are larger tha

Re: default margins

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mittwoch, 18. März 2009 12:29:42 Pekka Siponen wrote: > The default margins for a4 seem a little too narrow. The normal I see in > scores is about 2 cm wide. I concur. On most scores I have seen, the margins are larger than LilyPond's

Re: default margins

2009/3/18 Pekka Siponen : > The default margins for a4 seem a little too narrow. The normal I see in > scores > is about 2 cm wide. If the margins are only 1 cm thick, the page seems too > crowded. Also it is a legibility issue: usually for text, the lenght of a line > should n

default margins

The default margins for a4 seem a little too narrow. The normal I see in scores is about 2 cm wide. If the margins are only 1 cm thick, the page seems too crowded. Also it is a legibility issue: usually for text, the lenght of a line should not exceed 50–70 characters, otherwise the eye has