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13 | Adjusting Output | |
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16 | Mup does its best to lay out the music in an aesthetically pleasing way. | |
17 | Often, however, you may want to make adjustments. Perhaps the last part of | |
18 | a piece spilled over onto a third page and you'd like to squeeze it all on | |
19 | two pages, or a page turn falls at an awkward spot. There are several | |
20 | mechanisms available for making adjustments. They have already been discussed | |
21 | individually in various sections of this document, but this section tries to | |
22 | pull things together. | |
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25 | <A HREF="newscore.html">The "newscore" or "newpage" commands</A> | |
26 | can be used to force where breaks occur. | |
27 | This may be useful for ensuring a section ends at the end of a score or page. | |
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30 | If you want to get a little more or less on each page, it is usually best | |
31 | to start with changing the | |
32 | <A HREF="param.html#scale">scale,</A> | |
33 | <A HREF="param.html#stscale">staffscale,</A> | |
34 | <A HREF="param.html#packfact">packfact,</A> | |
35 | and/or | |
36 | <A HREF="param.html#packexp">packexp</A> | |
37 | parameters. | |
38 | You may want to experiment with changing these individually first, to get | |
39 | a feel for how they work, as trying to change all of them at once may lead to | |
40 | interactions that change things more radically than you might expect. | |
41 | Changing staffscale in score context lets you adjust the size of the | |
42 | music without affecting the size of the text in headers and footers. | |
43 | Adjusting the margins is sometimes helpful as well. Other parameters which | |
44 | might be useful in some situations are: | |
45 | <A HREF="param.html#scorepad">scorepad,</A> | |
46 | <A HREF="param.html#scoresep">scoresep,</A> | |
47 | <A HREF="param.html#staffpad">staffpad,</A> | |
48 | and | |
49 | <A HREF="param.html#staffsep">staffsep.</A> | |
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52 | The | |
53 | <A HREF="param.html#dist">dist,</A> | |
54 | <A HREF="param.html#dyndist">dyndist,</A> | |
55 | and | |
56 | <A HREF="param.html#chdist">chorddist</A> | |
57 | parameters are useful if | |
58 | you want items to line up vertically. The "dist" option can be used | |
59 | on rom, bold, ital, boldital, octave, mussym, crescendo and decrescendo | |
60 | statements, and on rehearsal marks, to force something where you want it. | |
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63 | The appearance of lyrics can be adjusted using the | |
64 | <A HREF="param.html#lyrfont">lyricsfont,</A> | |
65 | <A HREF="param.html#lyrfam">lyricsfontfamily,</A> | |
66 | <A HREF="param.html#lyrsize">lyricssize,</A> | |
67 | and | |
68 | <A HREF="param.html#lyralign">lyricsalign</A> | |
69 | parameters. | |
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