Re: Alignment of full-page scores in text documents

[Gilles]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 09:03:46 +0100, Urs Liska wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to figure out the best setting for page margins for mixed
> text/music documents. The task is to automatically set the margins in
> LilyPond depending on a LaTeX document where full-page scores are
> included.
>
> We have the horizontal margins more or less fixed, by default
> LilyPond's staff symbol will exactly match LaTeX's linewidth. When
> naively setting LilyPond's vertical margins to those of the text the
> result is (expectedly) rather ppor, as you can see here:
> https://github.com/jperon/lyluatex/issues/29#issuecomment-361159545.
> What I would basically want to achieve is mathing the outermost 
> *staff
> lines* with the text's type area.
>
> When manually trying different values I found that I would like the
> topmost staffline align not with the actual margin but the X-height 
> of
> the corresponding text. This can be seen here:
> https://github.com/jperon/lyluatex/issues/29#issuecomment-361162799
>
> On that same image the bottom staff line is aligned to the baseline
> of the text, and I'm not sure if that is the right choice. Somehow 
> the
> score visually looks lower than the text,

Isn't it because the "center of mass" of the notes in the last staff
is below it?
I'd guess that a similar (i.e. too high) effect would exist for the
top staff if most notes were above it.
My impression is that the latter image looks fine, once you assume
that the "visual frame" is induced by the (empty) staves.

Regards,
Gilles

> and I wonder whether there
> should be a similar amount of padding like at the top margin. But of
> course there is no "natural" reference point here.
>
> What is your opinion on this issue?
>
> Best
> Urs