Not a PDF viewer, but if you open a PDF file in Firefox and select
Wrapped Scrolling from the Tools menu (the >> button), you should see
pages side-by-side dependent upon your Zoom settings and how wide you
have resized your Firefox window. Just play with the zoom % and window
width to suit your taste, i.e., 4 pages side by side.
Doesn't this also address your 2nd point? That is 1 page = 1 panel.
On 2022-02-12 10:29, Paul McKay wrote:
Hi
Apologies that only half this question is Lilypond, but I'm sure
someone in this group will have shared my frustration.
I am very tempted to buy a nice wide monitor. I currently play from
the screen of my laptop which sits on top of my grand piano. It's a
real pain if I have to rotate the screen and the laptop to play from
an A4 page at more or less full size. If I got a nice big monitor, the
laptop could sit beside the piano and everything would be lovely …
… except … any PDF reader will display 2 pages side by side. On a
monitor with a 4:1 aspect ratio, this means that half of it is unused.
Despite searching for a week, I haven't found any PDF reader which
even thinks that wasting 50% of the display area is a bad idea. Does
anyone know of any PDF reader which will display more than 2 pages at
once? This is the best solution I have so far thought of. Other
suggestions would be very welcome.
On the other hand, I spend a huge percentage of my time playing music
I've typed into LilyPond. It would be very easy to make a PDF file
where pages were 4:1 and landscape. But rather than have a single line
of music 80cm long, it would be good to have the page divided into
four 20cm panels. Could someone tell me how to ask LilyPond to put
music into columns? So far, I've only been able to find out about how
to ask LilyPond to put words into columns.
Many thanks in advance
Paul McKay
