Thanks, Richard, alas, no ... that does nothing that I can discern except
errors in lilypond 2.19.x
I'm assuming, therefore, that I don't know what to do with your code. Use
\bookTitleMarkup somewhere?
Guy
Guy Stalnaker
jimmyg...@gmail.com
On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Richard Shann <rich...@rshann.plus.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 10:33 -0500, Guy Stalnaker wrote:
> > All,
> >
> >
> > I've done a search for this in the documentation and list archives,
> > but because the only terms I can think to search with (line, box,
> > draw) are so common, I cannot get useful results.
> >
> >
> > What I want to do is put a box, visually, around the engraved score,
> > but independent of the engraved score. There will be two boxes, one
> > (dashed or dotted) representing the margins of the document, and
> > another .25" larger that represents a paper-size (this has to do with
> > providing engraved music output that will be placed on non-standard
> > sized paper by another person). The boxes show them where their
> > margins/paper is on the engraving to allow them a sense for how much
> > space the score will consume in their final document.
> >
> > This is basically four straight lines, two horizontal and two vertical
> > but with reference to absolute page positioning, e.g., Line1: start
> > 1.5" down from top margin and 1" in from left margin and draw
> > horizontal for 7.5", Line2: start 1.5" down from top margin and 1" in
> > from left margin and draw down 8.0", etc.. Everything that I've seen
> > thus far are markup of some kind that are entered in reference to the
> > score or, with the Notation Reference entries for \draw-hline for
> > example, only seem to draw a line wherever the markup is place and not
> > at an absolute position.
> >
> >
> > I can, of course, output to png, open png in image editor and add the
> > boxes manually, but it would be easier :-) to do this in lilypond.
> > Maybe.
>
> Not sure if it will help, but when creating the book title page for
> Denemo I cooked up this:
>
> bookTitleMarkup = \markup \when-property #'header:title {
> { \postscript #"
> gsave
> initmatrix
> 1 setlinewidth 40 40 moveto 517 0 rlineto 0 760
> rlineto -517 0 rlineto 0 -760 rlineto stroke
> 0.5 setlinewidth 45 45 moveto 507 0 rlineto 0 750
> rlineto -507 0 rlineto 0 -750 rlineto stroke
> grestore" }
>
>
> I don't remember much about it now, but the gsave and grestore were
> things that made the thing work independently of the rest IIRC, so it
> may be what you need ...
>
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>
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