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Installing more systems on the front page of your Lilypond account

I am working on improving the excellent sheet that I found Debussy Deuxième Arabesque

on the freely available Mutopia Project .

In particular, I'm interested in fitting the music to fewer pages , but I'm trying my best to have the first page display five systems instead of four with the version I came to.

Debussy's Deuxième Arabesque pdf rendering

In the above reproduction, I would like the fith system (starting at line 13) to be at the bottom of the first page. There seems to be a lot of wasted space on the first page and I'm sure it will fit perfectly.

I find it hard to figure out how to do this. I have displayed spacing annotations as stated in the documentation, but I can't seem to figure it out.

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If I was typing this today, I would try changing the staff size, for example:



#(set-global-staff-size 18)
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You can add the following to your paper block:

\paper {
  min-systems-per-page = #5
  system-system-spacing.padding = #2  %fit staves closer together
  system-system-spacing.stretchability = #15  %how flexible the spacing is
}


This, of course, will force all other pages to have at least five systems. You can play around with the shim and stretch values ​​and see which works best. Also, you may want to make the poles smaller than the default 20pt. To do this, you can add the following at the beginning of the file:

#(set-global-staff-size 18)
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