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+Adjusting Output
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+Mup does its best to lay out the music in an aesthetically pleasing way.
+Often, however, you may want to make adjustments. Perhaps the last part of
+a piece spilled over onto a third page and you'd like to squeeze it all on
+two pages, or a page turn falls at an awkward spot. There are several
+mechanisms available for making adjustments. They have already been discussed
+individually in various sections of this document, but this section tries to
+pull things together.
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+<A HREF="newscore.html">The "newscore" or "newpage" commands</A>
+can be used to force where breaks occur.
+This may be useful for ensuring a section ends at the end of a score or page.
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+<P>
+If you want to get a little more or less on each page, it is usually best
+to start with changing the
+<A HREF="param.html#scale">scale,</A>
+<A HREF="param.html#stscale">staffscale,</A>
+<A HREF="param.html#packfact">packfact,</A>
+and/or
+<A HREF="param.html#packexp">packexp</A>
+parameters.
+You may want to experiment with changing these individually first, to get
+a feel for how they work, as trying to change all of them at once may lead to
+interactions that change things more radically than you might expect.
+Changing staffscale in score context lets you adjust the size of the
+music without affecting the size of the text in headers and footers.
+Adjusting the margins is sometimes helpful as well. Other parameters which
+might be useful in some situations are:
+<A HREF="param.html#scorepad">scorepad,</A>
+<A HREF="param.html#scoresep">scoresep,</A>
+<A HREF="param.html#staffpad">staffpad,</A>
+and
+<A HREF="param.html#staffsep">staffsep.</A>
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+<P>
+The
+<A HREF="param.html#dist">dist,</A>
+<A HREF="param.html#dyndist">dyndist,</A>
+and
+<A HREF="param.html#chdist">chorddist</A>
+parameters are useful if
+you want items to line up vertically. The "dist" option can be used
+on rom, bold, ital, boldital, octave, mussym, crescendo and decrescendo
+statements, and on rehearsal marks, to force something where you want it.
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+<P>
+The appearance of lyrics can be adjusted using the
+<A HREF="param.html#lyrfont">lyricsfont,</A>
+<A HREF="param.html#lyrfam">lyricsfontfamily,</A>
+<A HREF="param.html#lyrsize">lyricssize,</A>
+and
+<A HREF="param.html#lyralign">lyricsalign</A>
+parameters.
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