Mats, Thanks - I think I'll be using a guillotine and guesswork!
Laurie On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > It turns out that ly2dvi makes its own interpretation of the > pagesize paper variable, so you have to add some line in > ly2dvi as well. Unless you use ly2dvi -P, you will get > another surprise when you call dvips, since it uses its > default page size even if you have specified some other > page size in the geometry package in LaTeX (which is what > ly2dvi does), so you have to use 'dvips -t a5'. > At second thought, I'm afraid that dvips isn't configured > to know about A5 paper by default, see > `kpsewhich --format='dvips config' config.ps`. > > > /Mats > > > On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > > > > > > I am transcribing some music for a marching band and need to set it on > > > > A5(landscape). I created a file A5.ly based on A4.ly with altered height and > > > > width and used referred to that in my scores but the music was printed on > > > > A4(portrait) > > > > > > Did you follow the instructions at > > > >http://lilypond.org/stable/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Page-layout.html#Page%20layout > > > > > > /Mats > > > > > > > Yes > > > > Here is the opening of my file enea.ly and the file a5.ly which lives in > > /usr/share/lilypond/ly. If I add sufficient bars to more than fill a small > > sheet, a new page is not added automatically as it would with music > > covering more than one a4 sheet. > > > > a5.ly > > ================== > > \version "1.3.146" > > % a5.ly > > > > hsize = 210.0 \mm > > vsize = 148.5 \mm > > > > Enea.ly > > ================ > > \paper{ papersize = "a5" } > > \include "paper16.ly" > > > > \header{ > > title = "Enea" > > composer = "Viaris" > > instrument = "Baritone sax. (E flat)" > > } > > > > \score{ > > \notes \relative c'' > > \sequential{ > > \time 2/4 > > \key c \major > > { > > g8 r d r | g g r4 | [d'8 c b a] | g r r4 > > \repeat "volta" 2 { > > \repeat "percent" 6 {c,8 r g' r} > > d8 r g r d r r4 \repeat "percent" 6 {d8 r g r} > > c r g r | c r r4 \repeat "percent" 5 {c8 r g r} > > c8 r c r | f, f4 c8 | f r r4 | d8 \< r a' \! r > > }}}} > > > > -- > > Laurie Savage > > > > Science @ Pascoe Vale Girls' College > > 03 9306 2544 > > > > > > > > -- Laurie Savage Science @ Pascoe Vale Girls' College 03 9306 2544 _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
