Lilypond can do everything and lilypond is for everybody.
Yet, I don't seem to be part of this equation somehow.
I am getting very frustrated to get Lilypond to do the
simplest thing, to create a PDF file with 4 pages of empty
piano sheet music that I can use to jot notes on. That
shouldn't be too difficult right?
No, it isn't very difficult. But I agree with you, the first step to
learning Lilypond is fairly steep. Now for your problem - here's
how I would do a bunch of blank sheets for piano music:
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pages = {
% 4 pages with 6 systems each
\repeat unfold 24 { s1 \break }
}
\new PianoStaff <<
\new Staff {\clef treble \pages}
\new Staff {\clef bass \pages}
>>
\layout {
indent = 0.0\cm
\context {
\Score
% Remove things we don't need.
\remove Bar_number_engraver
\remove Bar_engraver
\remove Time_signature_engraver
}
}
\paper {
% Tweak the dimensions so the desired number of systems fit.
hsize = 21\cm
vsize = 27.5\cm
leftmargin = 2\cm
linewidth = 17\cm
topmargin = 0.5\cm
bottommargin = 0\cm
% Set all of these to empty, else Lilypond will use them in
% the layout and that might mess up formatting.
tagline = ""
bookTitleMarkup = ""
scoreTitleMarkup = ""
oddHeaderMarkup = ""
evenHeaderMarkup = ""
}
%%%%%%%%
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Sven Axelsson
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