Thanks for the suggestions, David & Dmytro. Have never worked with postscript. Will try that and pdflatex too. Agreed, scripting will be useful for repeated jobs.
Perhaps we could create a latex document with an appropriate layout, and embed lilypond within the columns. Anyways, still something like "Columns = 3" in the score header will be sweet :) Ananth On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Dmytro O. Redchuk <brownian....@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat 18 Sep 2010, 09:01 David Kastrup wrote: > > ananth p <l...@beautifulnote.com> writes: > > > > > Multi-Column layout! I need that too. > > > > > > This is how I did this score (3 Columns)- http://www.twitpic.com/ > > > 2pie84 > > > > > > 1. Calculate the width (and height?) of each column; set the page > > > size accordingly. (page width = column width) > > > 2. Run LilyPond, output the score as PNGs. > > > 3. Tailor PNGs. ImageMagick comes handy for this. > > > > Ugh. Create Postscript, then use psnup or similar to put multiple pages > > to one. If needed, follow up with pstopdf. > > Ananth, if it's acceptable, try pdfpages/pdflatex, which can put pdf pages > (produced by lilypond) in proper positions, put page numbers etc-etc. It's > syntax far more readable then psnup's one .) > > And yes, this will b "scriptable". > > -- > Dmytro O. Redchuk > Bug Squad _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
