Re: Top Margin Adjustment

[David Kastrup]

-Eluze <address@hidden> writes:

> Thomas-292 wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> In any LilyPond score, I always find the top margins to look abnormally
>> small. 
>> I have tried to set top-margin, but for some reason, it is ignored.
>> 
>> 
>>  \paper {
>>      top-margin = 5\cm
>>      annotate-spacing = ##t
>>      #(set-paper-size "letter")
>> }
>> 
>
> it's not ignored - but after having defined top-margin = 5\cm you override
> this with #(set-paper-size "letter")
>
> changing this order will do what you expect!

Because of the annotate-spacing, it would not apply here, but we had one
complaint already for input that looked somewhat like

\paper {
        top-margin = 5\cm
        #(set-paper-size "letter")
}

and "stopped working" once # stopped being prematurely evaluated in the
lexer, in this case before top-margin got assigned.

Sometimes two wrongs make a right when programming.

-- 
David Kastrup