This is very interesting here . . .
I recently started using precompiled binaries (from Guido's abcplus site), and also
noticed that it was using A4 instead of US letter size. I got around it by adding the
%%pageheight directive at the top of every file.
I don't know why I didn't realize that this was the problem - I just figured it was
something I did wrong, since it was working before when I compiled it myself on my
Linux box.
So, Guido - why are you compiling with A4 instead of US letter? Don't most people
print sheet music using standard 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper? (I do realize that many of
"us" are not in the US, so this may be pure ignorance here as well).
Thanks!
-Chris
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 01:17:31 -0000, "Jon Freeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
[snip]
>this one in many ways but the top of page 2 at least looks unaceptably high.
>Any ideas why this changed?
Looking at your files, it seems the page format is A4 instead of US
letter.
>Also, it's been suggested to me that we should allow a user to set a page
>size (just the A4 vs American Letter one) as a preference. Would I just need
[snip]
>pageheight <unit>
>Default: PAGEHEIGHT
>Compilation: PAGEHEIGHT= (A4: 29.7cm - US: 11in)
>Command line: none
>Description:
>Set the page height to <unit>.
>
>I'm not really clear how <unit> should be entered in an abc. eg. does it
>take A4, does it work on one measurment system, or do I need perhaps to
>specify "cm" on "in" after the numbers, etc.
[snip]
<unit> is a number followed by either:
nothing or 'pt': number of PostScript points. With a scale 1,
there are 72 points per inch.
'in': number of inches.
'cm': number of centimeters.
If you used './configure' to compile the program, the page format is set
to US letter by default. If you did a simple 'make', the file 'config.h'
is the one I use and the format is set to A4. In this case, comment the
line defining A4_FORMAT to switch back to US letter.
If you use a precompiled binary, you may reset the page format to
US letter with:
pageheight 11in
pagewidth 8.5in
leftmargin 0.7in
rightmargin 0.7in
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