"all the music in a single page output file" is correct, as it is the
cropped eps/pdf files that we're talking about, which is not separated by
page.
2018-02-27 3:25 GMT-04:00 Knut Petersen <knut_peter...@t-online.de>:
> Hi Federico, Étienne!
>
> This is perfect!
>
>
> I suggest this description:
> Compress all the music in a single page output file. Margins, page numbers
> and tagline are removed from the output.
>
>
> It's not perfect, its wrong.
>
> An example: zzztest.ly contains one score that results in a pdf with two
> pages if "lilypond zzztest" is used to compile the source. But other
> backends give different results:
>
> knut@golem:~/test> lilypond --eps --pdf -dcrop zzztest.ly
> GNU LilyPond 2.21.0
> Processing `zzztest.ly'
> [....]
> Layout output to `zzztest.eps'...
> Converting to `zzztest.pdf'...
> Layout output to `zzztest-1.eps'...
> Layout output to `zzztest-2.eps'...
> Converting to `./zzztest-1.pdf'...
> Converting to `./zzztest-2.pdf'...
> Layout output to `zzztest.cropped.eps'...
> Converting to `zzztest.cropped.pdf'...
> Converting to PNG...
> Success: compilation successfully completed
>
> You see that "all the music in a single page output file" is wrong as here
> also cropped eps/pdf images of every page are produced.
>
> I remember that it is necessary to note that a bit of white space
> introduced by e.g. an empty *Markup and a minimum-distance/padding etc
> might remain.
>
> This can be fixed with e.g.
>
> \paper {
> [...]
> oddHeaderMarkup = ##f
> evenHeaderMarkup = ##f
> oddFooterMarkup = ##f
> evenFooterMarkup = ##f
> bookTitleMarkup = ##f
> scoreTitleMarkup = ##f
> }
>
> (I know that some but not all of those settings are necessary for the
> described purpose, but I don't have the time to test that now.)
>
> Knut
>
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