Re: printed stems in OS X vs Windows 7

2012-02-29 Thread Tim McNamara
On Feb 28, 2012, at 7:45 PM, Bryn Hughes wrote: > > I haven't tried this (silly, I know), but I will try tomorrow morning when I > get to work. I'm starting to think that it IS the viewer. Would the PDF > viewer actually affect the printout? I believe I was using Preview on the > mac. Has anyon

Re: printed stems in OS X vs Windows 7

2012-02-29 Thread James
Hello, On 29 February 2012 01:45, Bryn Hughes wrote: > I haven't tried this (silly, I know), but I will try tomorrow morning when I > get to work. I'm starting to think that it IS the viewer. Would the PDF > viewer actually affect the printout? Yep. An example (on windows anyway) was that Adobe

Re: printed stems in OS X vs Windows 7

2012-02-29 Thread Bryn Hughes
I haven't tried this (silly, I know), but I will try tomorrow morning when I get to work. I'm starting to think that it IS the viewer. Would the PDF viewer actually affect the printout? I believe I was using Preview on the mac. Has anyone else had difficulties with this particular program? Thanks

Re: printed stems in OS X vs Windows 7

2012-02-29 Thread Bryn Hughes
Thanks for your reply! It's on the printed copies that the discrepancies are most noticeable. It's as if the line that is drawn for the stem is too far to the left on each notehead in the mac-rendered version. On the windows-rendered version it looks fine, but as I said, the margins are all wrong.

Re: printed stems in OS X vs Windows 7

2012-02-28 Thread David Bobroff
On 2/28/2012 7:42 PM, Bryn Hughes wrote: Hello, all. I'm a musician and music theorist who has been back and forth to lilypond over the past few years, and I've recently decided to make the effort to learn lilypond thoroughly enough that it can become my main notation software. I have a quest

Re: printed stems in OS X vs Windows 7

2012-02-28 Thread Nick Payne
On 29/02/12 06:42, Bryn Hughes wrote: Hello, all. I'm a musician and music theorist who has been back and forth to lilypond over the past few years, and I've recently decided to make the effort to learn lilypond thoroughly enough that it can become my main notation software. I have a question

Re: printed stems in OS X vs Windows 7

2012-02-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 02:42:09PM -0500, Bryn Hughes wrote: >Overall, I'd say that the rendering on Windows looks much better, >though it'd be nice to have full control of formatting as well. There _are_ some minor differences in the pdf output on various platforms, but in this case my mo

printed stems in OS X vs Windows 7

2012-02-28 Thread Bryn Hughes
Hello, all. I'm a musician and music theorist who has been back and forth to lilypond over the past few years, and I've recently decided to make the effort to learn lilypond thoroughly enough that it can become my main notation software. I have a question that I hope is not too ignorant. I've sear