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Re: default margins
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Mark Polesky |
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Re: default margins |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:03:42 -0700 (PDT) |
> 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 than LilyPond's
> (although I have not explicitly measured them).
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,
measured values from any one publisher deviated quite a
lot from score to score, sometimes from page to page.
I even recall a couple of instances where the line-width
at the top of a page was several mm shorter from the
line-width at the bottom of the page. Also, the printed
matter was not always consistently centered on the page.
Thus in most cases, my reported values for top- and
bottom-margin are the same (per publisher), representing a
vertically centered page.
So, perhaps there can be no "precise" measurements; though
I tried to capture the average measurements as best as I
could.
By the way, I can easily confirm the wide margins:
Peters = 17.75 mm
Wiener UE = 20.75 mm
Henle = 21.25 mm
Schirmer = 21.25 mm
One interesting thing to note -- I compared the ratio of
paper-width to paper-height for each publisher, and found
that all had proportions much closer to the (short and fat)
"letter" ratio than to the (tall and skinny) "a4" ratio.
w/h ratio:
...tall and skinny...
a4 = 0.70707 mm
8.5x12 = 0.70833 mm
9x12 = 0.75 mm
Peters = 0.75 mm
Henle = 0.75806 mm
Wiener UE = 0.76 mm
Schirmer = 0.764 mm
letter = 0.77273 mm
...short and fat...
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Anyway, here are my results:
Peters:
paper-width = 222 mm
paper-height = 297 mm
staff-height = 7 mm
line-width = 186.5 mm
top-margin = 10 mm
bottom-margin = 10 mm
Henle:
paper-width = 235 mm
paper-height = 310 mm
staff-height = 7 mm
line-width = 192.5 mm
top-margin = 15 mm
bottom-margin = 15 mm
Wiener Urtext Edition:
paper-width = 230 mm (232 including binding)
paper-height = 304 mm
staff-height = 6.25 mm
line-width = 188.5 mm
top-margin = 11 mm
bottom-margin = 19 mm
Schirmer:
paper-width = 230 mm
paper-height = 301 mm
staff-height = 7 mm
line-width = 187.5 mm
top-margin = 13 mm
bottom-margin = 13 mm
Hope this helps!
- Mark
p.s. should we migrate this to bug- or -devel?