Re: Letter page length too long

[Michael Haynie]

Ah -- found it:

/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/share/lilypond/2.6.3/scm/ 
paper.scm

That's a mouth full.  There is a definition for bottommargin that is  
set to 6mm, which is a little shy of the 1/4 inch usually recommended  
for printer margins.  I also see a topmargin set to 5mm.  I'm not sure  
why I'm not seeing trouble at the top of the page, unless there is some  
additional space in the header that isn't obvious to me.

Setting bottommargin to 7.5 allows the footer to print without being  
cut off, at least with the deskjet 5550 I'm currently using.

I think it might be a good idea to increase the bottom margin to 7.5 or  
even 8 mm.  Surely those last 2mm don't make a difference in setting  
scores, and do prevent having to hack around to avoid having the footer  
cut off.  Thoughts?

On Oct 25, 2005, at 7:31 PM, Erik Sandberg wrote:

> On Wednesday 26 October 2005 01.00, Michael Haynie wrote:
> > OK -- I verified that -sPAPERSIZE="letter" is appearing on the gs  
> > line,
> > and Acrobat reader reports 8.5x11, as I mentioned  previously.  
> > Printing
> > A4 on Letter with scaling results in wider margins at the right and
> > left, since a4 is longer than letter.  This is default behavior on Mac
> > OS.  Not scaling cuts off much more than half a line of text.
> >
> > So -- back to my theory -- there is probably a collection of paper
> > dimensions in the sources somewhere, and one of them is wrong.  Where
> > should I look?
>
> You can try
> grep a4 scm/*.scm
> in the source tree
>
> --
> Erik