Some additions to Han-Wen's answer:
> 2. is it possible for lily to simply break each line when it runs out
> of room instead of my having to do a
> \bar "|"; \break
> at the end of each line?
If you want to allow a line break anywhere, the following should work
(I hope):
\property Staff.barAlways = "1"
\property Staff.defaultBarType = "empty"
> about tuplet numbers: can i convince lilypond to *always* put a brace
> around them, regardless of whether the notes the tuplet covers already
> have a brace or not? it's more readable that way in many cases.
Do you want a curved brace or a square bracket?
> even more importantly, can i force the tuplet number + brace to appear
> above or below the notes at will?
I'll make an attempt to add this as an option.
> ... the ly2dvi man page talks about specifying width and
> height in terms of points, but i'm not sure what a point is.
A point is about 1/72 inch, i.e. 25.4/72 mm.
I would set the textheight and linewidth in the \paper section of
the input file. I'm not sure about how ly2dvi handles the
paper size settings.
/Mats
