On 2012-08-11 21:57, David Kastrup wrote:
Laura Conrad <lcon...@laymusic.org> writes:
"Laura" == Laura Conrad <lcon...@laymusic.org> writes:
Laura> When run on the attached file, lilypond-book sets the line
Laura> length of the music to be much less than the actual width of
Laura> the page that latex is using (which you can see by where it
Laura> puts the footers.)
I think I have a clue as to the source of this problem. I did
some investigation, since this is a blocking bug for a project with a
tight deadline in early September.
I looked at the lilypond-book python code, and it does indeed seem to be
setting the width wider for a landscape page than for a portrait page.
However, at some point when lilypond-book is running lilypond, I get the
following warning:
warning: systems run off the page due to improper paper settings,
setting default values
It looks like whatever code writes this warning thinks that no page
should ever be more than about 9 inches wide. This might be good enough
for my purposes, although I was thinking about using smaller than 1 inch
margins, and certainly there are some purposes for which you would
definitely want minimal margins.
So can someone who understands where that message comes from check
whether there's some inappropriate hard coding of the maximum width of a
page which is too small for a letter paper in landscape?
No such luck, it is in LilyPond itself that you have
if (to_boolean (c_variable ("check-consistency")))
{
// Consistency checks. If values don't match, set defaults.
if (abs (paper_width - line_width - left_margin - right_margin) > 1e-6)
{
line_width = line_width_default;
left_margin = left_margin_default;
right_margin = right_margin_default;
warning (_ ("margins do not fit with line-width, setting default
values"));
}
else if ((left_margin < 0) || (right_margin < 0))
{
line_width = line_width_default;
left_margin = left_margin_default;
right_margin = right_margin_default;
warning (_ ("systems run off the page due to improper paper settings,
setting default values"));
}
}
Have you tried setting the paper type in your lilypond-book snippets?
LilyPond-book only siphons off
# Retrieve dimensions from LaTeX
LATEX_INSPECTION_DOCUMENT = r'''
\nonstopmode
%(preamble)s
\begin{document}
\typeout{textwidth=\the\textwidth}
\typeout{columnsep=\the\columnsep}
\makeatletter\if@twocolumn\typeout{columns=2}\fi\makeatother
\end{document}
so it does not bother getting/setting paper info.
Ah, good point. It actually took me a while to see what you mean: This
snippet correctly extracts the actual line width for the snippet, but
the snippet uses the default lilypond paper size rather than the paper
size implied by the latex document... Nice Catch!
When I worked on these parts of lilypond-book, I tested with various
page settings, but apparently forgot to check with larger page sizes
than A4 portrait...
The apparent solution is to also print out the paper page width/height
and all the margins (to avoid e.g. too much vertical stretching of staff
groups)...
I'll try to come up with a patch.
Cheers,
Reinhold
Fragments may use the
`papersize=STRING'
Where STRING is a paper size defined in `scm/paper.scm' i.e.
`a5', `quarto', `11x17' etc.
Values not defined in `scm/paper.scm' will be ignored, a warning
will be posted and the snippet will be printed using the default
`a4' size.
option. Embarrassingly, there is no way to get a4 landscape in
LilyPond-book right now, but a3 should do the trick I guess, at some
loss of performance.
Inside of LilyPond, #(set-default-paper-size "a4" 'landscape) would
work.
Hmm, to make life for .ly file generators easier, maybe it would be a
good idea to additionally define paper sizes a4landscape and the like...
Cheers,
Reinhold
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