The simple reason is that the ly2dvi script doesn't know about the legal and ledger paper sizes. I just tried to add the support but ran into a small problem;
Would you expect a ledger paper to be used mainly in landscape or in portrait orientation? It turns out that dvips (that we use to convert .dvi to .ps files) expects ledger paper to be 17inch wide and 11inch high, i.e. in landscape orientation. Dvips uses 'tabloid' to denote 17'x11' paper used in portrait orientation. The same naming convention is described, for example, in http://groups.google.com/groups?q=paper+sizes+tabloid&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=1995Jun8.104533.18767%40sei.cmu.edu&rnum=1
What do you think, should we rename 'ledger' to 'tabloid' or change the definitions in ledger-init.ly to correspond to landscape orientation?
/Mats
Peter Lutek wrote:
greetings!
on my installation of lilypond (1.8.0 on RedHat9), if i attempt to use papersize = "legal" or papersize = "ledger", i get an ly2dvi warning saying "legal" or "ledger" is an invalid value. "letter", "a3", and "a4" are all ok.
ledger-init.ly , legal-init.ly , a3-init.ly , a4-init.ly , and letter-init.ly all exist and appear to have the same syntax.
why do two of these size definitions not work?
-p
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