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| 3 | Adjusting Mup output | |
| 4 | </TITLE></HEAD> | |
| 5 | <BODY> | |
| 6 | <P> | |
| 7 | <A HREF="debug.html"><-- previous page</A> | |
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| 10 | </P> | |
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| 12 | <H2> | |
| 13 | Adjusting Output | |
| 14 | </H2> | |
| 15 | <P> | |
| 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. | |
| 23 | </P> | |
| 24 | <P> | |
| 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. | |
| 28 | </P> | |
| 29 | <P> | |
| 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> | |
| 50 | </P> | |
| 51 | <P> | |
| 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. | |
| 61 | </P> | |
| 62 | <P> | |
| 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. | |
| 70 | </P> | |
| 71 | <HR><P> | |
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| 73 | </P> | |
| 74 | </BODY></HTML> |