Preventing page breaks

2006-09-20 Thread OnionRingOfDoom
When I added the title of the piece in what used to be a single page of music, lilypond decided to split the piece into two pages with each line of music being spaced very far apart. Previously I had been using this code in order to squeeze as much as I could onto one page without being too crowde

Padding doesn't work

2006-09-21 Thread OnionRingOfDoom
I've tried to add padding to several objects, but it doesn't seem to work. My code is as follows: \once \override RehersalMark #'staff-padding = #2.0 \mark \default | and \override OttavaBracket #'padding = #2.5 Both these code snippets do absolutly nothing. It's also rather unclear to me in

Re: Padding doesn't work

2006-09-21 Thread OnionRingOfDoom
Ok, thanks for the quick help there! Someone should fix the doc so that it's a little easier to find that info though... -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Padding-doesn%27t-work-tf2315711.html#a6440590 Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Padding doesn't work

2006-09-21 Thread OnionRingOfDoom
Kieren MacMillan wrote: > > Therefore, you need to use Score.RehearsalMark instead of just > RehearsalMark (unless you happen to be *in* the Score context, which > doesn't happen very often). > Hmm, it solved the ottavaBracket problem, but the rehersal marks still arn't moving. My code is

Instrument transposition and score transposition confusion

2006-10-04 Thread OnionRingOfDoom
I'm writing an orchestral score out, and I have a large piece.ly file in which all the individual instrument parts music is written out. Every instrument's part starts with something like varInstrumentNotes = \relative c'' { . Every part is entered with \relative c, then there are template files f

Repositioning \tempo, and one other question

2006-10-23 Thread OnionRingOfDoom
Like the subject says, is there any way to reposition the \tempo mark? I'd love to be able to move it a bit to the left. Also, my instrument names seem to not be displayed propperly in my score. The names are declared as follows: Soprano = \relative c'' { \set Staff.instrumentName = #"S