Re: LM Orchestral template

[Phil Holmes]

"James Lowe" <address@hidden> wrote in message news:address@hidden
> On 22/09/15 20:51, Simon Albrecht wrote:
> > On 22.09.2015 21:42, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> > > Simon Albrecht wrote Tuesday, September 22, 2015 7:35 PM
> > >
> > > > I just came across the Orchestral template in LM A.6.I, and noticed two
> > > > flaws, one minor and one serious:
> > > > – Double basses usually aren’t notated in a \clef "bass_8", but as
> > > > transposing instruments (originating from the time when they were
> > > > sharing a staff with the violoncelli). All the scores I have here, from
> > > > Beethoven through Mendelssohn, Bruckner and Mahler to Hindemith, 
> > > > confirm
> > > > this. I attach a version of the template where this is changed.
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > > – The image rendition in the docs is extremely compressed, with
> > > > overlapping stuff, staves touching one another &c. This is a really bad
> > > > example and needs to be changed; how is this done? I don’t know the
> > > > framework in lilypond-book-preamble.ly; certainly there will be someone
> > > > who can quickly say how to allow the score more space.
> > > I think for this example all that is needed is to reduce the global 
> > > staff
> > > size, which is set (unusually) in this file to 17.
> > I’m afraid it won’t be as easy. I also thought that way, but I tried it
> > (loading the complete source file for the image with \include
> > "lilypond-book-preamble.ly" etc.) and it doesn’t make a difference:
> > everything gets smaller, but is compressed and cut the same.
>
> Yes I verified this too.
>
> Well I tried to fiddle about the 'Flexible Vertical Spacing' (NR 4.4.1)
>
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation-big-page#flexible-vertical-spacing-within-systems
>
> I think a combination of these will help, the problem I have is that I
> cannot work out which. :(
>
> I've never got my head around these settings.
>
> James


If you use the template locally, the spacings are fine.  So it's something 
to do with the way snippets are compiled: perhaps a default paper-size 
setting?  The version on the LSR is also badly spaced, so it may be possible 
to experiment with that to correct the version in the docs.

http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=719

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Phil Holmes