Re: Page layout problems

[Mats Bengtsson]

Why not set the leftmargin or rightmargin, see
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Page-layout.html#Page-layout

The page layout handling has changed completely since version 2.2, so
don't try to use your old solutions.

   /Mats

Cameron Horsburgh wrote:
> I have the following lines in a score:
>
> #(set-global-staff-size 12)
> #(set-default-paper-size "legal" 'landscape)
> \layout {
>     linewidth=11.5 \in
>     indent=2.0 \cm
>     }
>
> The documentation on the last two lines is fairly sparse, but as I 
> understands it, the linewidth setting governs the length of lines score 
> wide, and the indent line affects the left indent on the first system.
>
> In the piece I'm working on, everything seems to be set too far to the 
> left. The instrument names on the second and subsequent pages are all 
> but off the page. Changing linewidth only affects the right margin.
>
> These two commands seemed to do the trick in Lilypond 2.2 but fail now. 
> Is the new page layout system at fault, or is it just me? ;-)
>
> Cameron
>
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