Re: How to set a fixed distance between upper page edge and top line of first staff?

[Urs Liska]

Hi again,

sorry for the noise (although it might have triggered some thoughts that may 
prove useful down the road), but I have just found a pretty simple solution for 
your case:

{
  \omit Score.SystemStartBar
  \override Staff.StaffSymbol.Y-extent = #'(-5 . 15)
  c'1
}

will make LilyPond believe that the Staff has an extent of 5 staff spaces below 
and 15 above the middle line, and so the middle line will always have a 
distance from the top margin of *at least* 15 staff spaces.

I have just tested with this .tex file:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[insert=inline,inline-staffsize=20]{lyluatex}
\begin{document}

\begin{lilypond}[insert=inline]
{
  \omit Score.SystemStartBar
  \override Staff.StaffSymbol.Y-extent = #'(-5 . 20)
  c''1
}
\end{lilypond}
\begin{lilypond}[insert=inline]
{
  \omit Score.SystemStartBar
  \override Staff.StaffSymbol.Y-extent = #'(-5 . 20)
  g'''1
}
\end{lilypond}
\begin{lilypond}[insert=inline]
{
  \omit Score.SystemStartBar
  \override Staff.StaffSymbol.Y-extent = #'(-5 . 20)
  c'''1
}
\end{lilypond}
\end{document}

and got the attached result. I'm sure one can wrap this in a usable solution 
for your use case.

HTH
Urs

29. Juli 2019 11:10, "Urs Liska" <address@hidden> schrieb:

> Hi Kim (?),
> 
> 28. Juli 2019 22:59, "kimfierens" <address@hidden> schrieb:
> 
>> Hi everyone, I'm new to LilyPond, and I have a layout question for you. The
>> title says it all basically: how do I get LilyPond to put a fixed distance
>> between the upper page edge and the top line of the first staff, regardless
>> of any stuff (such as notes on ledger lines) that might stick out above the
>> staff?
> 
> First: Unfortunately LilyPond doesn't make this too easy because it doesn't 
> "think" like that. I
> have often wanted to achieve this in order to get facing pages align 
> vertically and produce a more
> consistent "type area", but to no avail.
> 
> However, if you are consistently dealing with single-system examples there 
> are some options. I'm
> not going into too much detail right now because we need a little more 
> information.
> 
> Basically what I *think* should be the easiest approach in your case is 
> basically "printing" a
> transparent rectangle behind the score that has fixed vertical dimensions and 
> which you know goes
> beyond the topmost possible score element. When then the top margin is set to 
> zero LilyPond will
> include the transparent rectangle, and you have the fixed vertical spacing.
> 
>> The reason why I'm asking this is that I wish to create (in LaTex) a
>> table/array of small musical snippets. For aesthetic reasons, it would be
>> nice if all the staff fragments within a table row were lined up vertically
>> at the same height, like this:
>> 
>> <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/t5872/Schermafbeelding_2019-07-28_om_22.png>
>> 
>> My idea is to create a very small page for each snippet and then export this
>> page as an eps file into LaTeX. Hence my question.
> 
> If you are working with LaTeX and don't mind using LuaLaTeX I would 
> definitely suggest *not* to do
> all that processing manually or in some external scripts but use lyluatex
> (http://ctan.org/pkg/lyluatex) to directly write the snippets into the LaTeX 
> document.
> 
> One more question: on the example you attached *nothing* protruded *below* 
> the staff lines. I
> assume this is not consistent with every examples you'll have? Because if 
> that would be the case
> you could use lyluatex's inline placement with bottom-alignment.
> (I just added an issue with an idea how that question could be handled in 
> lyluatex:
> https://github.com/jperon/lyluatex/issues/267)
> 
> HTH
> Urs
> 
>> Thanks for any tips and/or comments!
>> 
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