Thank you Francisco; with staffsize 14 and a3 it now fits the page sorry for dumb questions
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Francisco Vila <paconet....@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/1/1 corallina <corall...@gmail.com>: >> I was interested in the orchestral template that was posted by Hu Haipeng >> and after minor fixes to get it to compile was wondering can someone >> address these questions. >> >> lilypond takes the input file and shoves it all into a single page >> which is blah. > > I'm not sure what else are you looking for, this is correct. > >> I would like to fiddle with the template but am wondering how to decide >> where to page break. > > Music notation is bi-dimensional, it has simultaneous notes in the > vertical axis and sequential notes in the horizontal axis. Break > staves anywhere you like using \break and pages using \pageBreak. > >> What is the paper size for a "real" conductors book. > > It depends on the size of the orchestral score. Big staves could go up to A3. > >> >> Are different groups of like instruments all on a single page, >> strings, woodwinds, >> percussion? > > I've never seen a conductor full score that does not have absolutely > everything on a single page. How else could it be read? > >> >> I loaded the ps file into gv and tried some different paper sizes and was >> able >> to view bits of the file. > > You need to reduce the size of the staves, eg with > #(set-global-staff-size 14) > standard is 20. > -- > Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) > http://www.paconet.org > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
