Re: Best way of adding space between lyrics and footer

[Mats Bengtsson]

The lilypond script has hard-coded the distance from the bottom of the
score to the baseline of the footer text to be 2 mm. This seems silly
to me, since the bottom margin of the page (including the footer text)
is set to 20 mm. I think this is a clear bug which should be fixed
as soon as possible. In the mean time, you could either hack
/usr/local(bin/lilypond
according to the following patch, or set the paper variable
textheight within your scores (reduce it a bit from the default
260 mm if you use A4 paper).


--- lilypond.orig       2004-01-27 14:12:19.000000000 +0100
+++ lilypond.hacked     2004-01-27 14:12:10.000000000 +0100
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@
        'latexpackages' :  ['geometry'],

        # for geometry v3
-       'latexoptions' : ['compat2'],
+#      'latexoptions' : ['compat2'],

        'papersize' : [],
        'pagenumber' : [1],
@@ -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,includehead,bottom=20mm,headsep=2mm,top=12mm,headheight=2mm,footskip=10mm,%s}\n' 
% (papersize, linewidth, textheight, orientation)


I'll write a follow-up to bug-lilypond.

  /Mats

Nick Busigin wrote:
> In typesetting lead sheets, we occasionally run into a situation where
> the lyrics text and the footer text are very close to one another - as
> shown on the attached PNG file.  What would be the best way of adding
> some padding space between the lyrics text and the footer text?  I am
> thinking that decreasing the space between the lyrics text and the staff
> would work. Is is possible to do this for just the last staff on the
> page? 
>
> Thanks in advance,
>                                    Nick
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