From: Trevor Daniels Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:44:55 +0000 (+0100) Subject: GDP: NR 4 Merge Displaying spacing into Fitting music X-Git-Tag: release/2.11.55-1~17^2~2 X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cccf381db74397aaa52d0144c5c9ecdf04281dcf;p=lilypond.git GDP: NR 4 Merge Displaying spacing into Fitting music --- diff --git a/Documentation/user/spacing.itely b/Documentation/user/spacing.itely index a6dc7303ef..5bc88ae90f 100644 --- a/Documentation/user/spacing.itely +++ b/Documentation/user/spacing.itely @@ -81,9 +81,8 @@ be placed in either. @menu * Paper and pages:: -* Music layout:: -* Displaying spacing:: -* Breaks:: +* Music layout:: +* Breaks:: * Vertical spacing:: * Horizontal spacing:: * Fitting music onto fewer pages:: @@ -583,37 +582,6 @@ layout. This manual: @ref{Changing context default settings}. -@node Displaying spacing -@section Displaying spacing - -@funindex annotate-spacing -@cindex Spacing, display of properties - -To graphically display the dimensions of vertical properties that may -be altered for page formatting, set @code{annotate-spacing} in the -@code{\paper} block, like this - - -@c need to have \book{} otherwise we get the separate systems. -hwn -@lilypond[verbatim] -#(set-default-paper-size "a6" 'landscape) - -\book { - \score { { c4 } } - \paper { annotate-spacing = ##t } -} -@end lilypond - - -@c TODO: really bad vagueness due to bug in annotate-spacing. -gp -@noindent -Some unit dimensions are measured in staff spaces, while others -are measured in millimeters. -The pairs -(@var{a},@var{b}) are intervals, where @var{a} is the lower edge and -@var{b} the upper edge of the interval. - - @node Breaks @section Breaks @@ -2157,10 +2125,50 @@ of room left on those. When investigating layout issues, @code{annotate-spacing} is an invaluable tool. This command prints the values of various -layout spacing commands; see @ref{Displaying spacing}, for more -details. From the output of @code{annotate-spacing}, we can +layout spacing commands; for more details see the following +section, @ref{Displaying spacing}. + +@menu +* Displaying spacing:: +* Changing spacing:: +@end menu + +@node Displaying spacing +@subsection Displaying spacing + +@funindex annotate-spacing +@cindex Spacing, display of properties + +To graphically display the dimensions of vertical properties that may +be altered for page formatting, set @code{annotate-spacing} in the +@code{\paper} block, like this: + +@c need to have \book{} otherwise we get the separate systems. -hwn +@lilypond[verbatim] +#(set-default-paper-size "a6" 'landscape) +\book { + \score { { c4 } } + \paper { annotate-spacing = ##t } +} +@end lilypond + + +@c TODO: really bad vagueness due to bug in annotate-spacing. -gp +@noindent +Some unit dimensions are measured in staff spaces, while others +are measured in millimeters. +The pairs +(@var{a},@var{b}) are intervals, where @var{a} is the lower edge and +@var{b} the upper edge of the interval. + +@node Changing spacing +@subsection Changing spacing + +From the output of @code{annotate-spacing}, we can see which margins we may wish to alter. +@c TODO add info about or pointers to margin settings + Other than margins, there are a few other options to save space: @itemize