Page layout problems in lilypond

[Mats Bengtsson]

The recent changes of the page layout:
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2004-01-02  Han-Wen Nienhuys   <address@hidden>
        * scripts/lilypond.py (global_latex_preamble): crank down size of
        the margins. Now there is a 12 mm top and bottom margin, which
        should correspond with the printable area of modern printers.


        This enlarges the music height of the printable page a little.
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have some problems:

- They made lilypond incompatible with older versions of the geometry
  package since the options list includes 'includehead'. This is silly
  since we already have the option 'compat2', which among others implies
  'includehead'. So, removing this option wouldn't change the layout and
  would regain the compatibility with geometry version 2.

- The setting footskip=2mm means that the baseline of the footer
  starts 2 mm below the page body. This means that the footer
  almost collides with last line of music if the music fills the
  full page and has ledger lines or dynamics enough to extend at
  least down to Score.minimumVerticalExtent. I propose to increase
  footskip to at least 6mm.

- Because of the compat2 option, the bottom margin including the
  footer is now 20+2=22mm. I don't understand why the bottom parameter
  was increased in a patch from 2004-01-13, since the top margin
  is top+headheight+headsep=16 mm, including the header.
  I propose to decrease the bottom margin to 16 mm including the footer.


I propose one of the following two patches. The first one gives
compatibility with older versions of geometry. Both give the
same result in the output.

-------------------- Version 1 --------------------------
--- lilypond.py.orig    2004-01-27 15:18:18.000000000 +0100
+++ lilypond.py 2004-01-27 16:43:03.000000000 +0100
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@
                linewidth = '597pt'
        else:
                linewidth = '%d%s' % (maxlw, unit)
-       s = s + 
'\geometry{%swidth=%s%s,includehead,bottom=20mm,headsep=2mm,top=12mm,headheight=2mm,footskip=2mm,%s}\n' 
% (papersize, linewidth, textheight, orientation)
+       s = s + 
'\geometry{%swidth=%s%s,bottom=10mm,headsep=2mm,top=12mm,headheight=2mm,footskip=6mm,%s}\n' 
% (papersize, linewidth, textheight, orientation)


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-------------------- Version 2 -----------------------------
--- lilypond.py.orig    2004-01-27 15:18:18.000000000 +0100
+++ lilypond.py 2004-01-27 15:19:08.000000000 +0100
@@ -184,9 +184,6 @@
        'latexheaders' : [],
        'latexpackages' :  ['geometry'],

-       # for geometry v3
-       'latexoptions' : ['compat2'],
-
        'papersize' : [],
        'pagenumber' : [1],
        'textheight' : [],
@@ -438,7 +435,7 @@
                linewidth = '597pt'
        else:
                linewidth = '%d%s' % (maxlw, unit)
-       s = s + 
'\geometry{%swidth=%s%s,includehead,bottom=20mm,headsep=2mm,top=12mm,headheight=2mm,footskip=2mm,%s}\n' 
% (papersize, linewidth, textheight, orientation)
+       s = s + 
'\geometry{%swidth=%s%s,includehead,bottom=16mm,headsep=2mm,top=12mm,headheight=2mm,footskip=6mm,%s}\n' 
% (papersize, linewidth, textheight, orientation)


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  /Mats


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