Good suggestion. This of course works fine but it means manual labor and
guessing. What is the point of a computer if it cannot do this for us?
I tried -dpreview but could not get it to work. Help a poor noob, please.
> Den 17. jan. 2016 kl. 12.49 skrev Pierre Perol-Schneider
> <pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com>:
>
> Hi Carl-Henrik,
>
> Simply defined the 'paper' dimension you'd like :
>
> \paper {
> paper-height = 150
> paper-width = 50
> }
>
> E.g. :
>
> \version "2.19.35"
>
> %-------------------------------
> % Global variables
> %-------------------------------
> global = {
> \time 4/4
> \key c \major
> }
>
> %-------------------------------
> % Music
> %-------------------------------
> NRT = \relative {
> \global
> \clef G
> \hideNotes
> c' d e
> }
>
> high = \relative {
> \global
> \clef G
> \hideNotes
> c' d e
> }
>
> low = \relative {
> \global
> \clef F
> \hideNotes
> c d e
> }
>
> %-------------------------------
> % Score
> %-------------------------------
>
> \paper {
> paper-height = 150
> paper-width = 50
> top-margin = 0
> bottom-margin = 0
> left-margin = 0
> right-margin = 0
> indent = 22
> }
>
> \header {
> tagline = ""
> }
>
> \score {
> <<
> \new Staff \with { instrumentName = "Analysis" }
> { \NRT }
> \new GrandStaff \with { instrumentName = "Woodwind" } <<
> \new Staff { \high }
> \new Staff { \low }
> >>
> \new GrandStaff \with { instrumentName = "Brass" } <<
> \new Staff { \high }
> \new Staff { \low }
> >>
> \new GrandStaff \with { instrumentName = "Strings" } <<
> \new Staff { \high }
> \new Staff { \low }
> >>
> \new GrandStaff \with {
> instrumentName = \markup \right-column {
> "Piano"
> "Aux."
> }
> } <<
> \new Staff { \high }
> \new Staff { \low }
> >>
> >>
>
> %-------------------------------
> % Layout
> %-------------------------------
> \layout {
> \context {
> \Score
> timing = ##f
> }
> \context {
> \GrandStaff
> \override InstrumentName.self-alignment-X = #RIGHT %% or 1
> }
> \context {
> \Staff
> \omit TimeSignature
> \override InstrumentName.self-alignment-X = #RIGHT %% or 1
> }
> }
> }
>
>
> HTH,
> Pierre
>
> 2016-01-17 12:30 GMT+01:00 Carl-Henrik Buschmann <chbuschm...@mac.com>:
>> > 17. jan. 2016 kl. 12.22 skrev Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de>:
>> >
>> > On 17.01.2016 12:10, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote:
>> >>
>> >> 2) I need to export pngs for my latex documents and i would like the
>> >> bounding box to be as small as possible. How do i do this?
>> >
>> > It’s not quite clear what you want. Perhaps:
>> > \paper {
>> > top-margin = 0
>> > bottom-margin = 0
>> > left-margin = 0
>> > right-margin = 0
>> > }
>> > ?
>> >
>> > Best, Simon
>>
>> When making snippets I dont need the entire A4 paper, i just need the music.
>> The bounding box is the area exported, or cropped if you like. In Sibelius i
>> can check a box and it eliminates all unnecessary white space.
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