Hi Valentin Yes, I realized once I sent the message that I should have said I'm using Windows 10. I will try it out. Many thanks Paul
On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 at 11:19, Valentin Petzel <valen...@petzel.at> wrote: > Hello Paul, > > it would help to know what system you are on. I know for sure that KDEs > Okular can do this, so supposing you are on either on Linux or Windows 10+ > this might be an option. This then looks as in the appended file (yes, > having four pages next to each other makes little sense on a 17 inch > screen, but well ... what should I do?). > > Cheers, > Valentin > > 12.02.2022 11:30:27 Paul McKay <plm...@gmail.com>: > > Hi > Apologies that only half this question is Lilypond, but I'm sure someone > in this group will have shared my frustration. > I am very tempted to buy a nice wide monitor. I currently play from the > screen of my laptop which sits on top of my grand piano. It's a real pain > if I have to rotate the screen and the laptop to play from an A4 page at > more or less full size. If I got a nice big monitor, the laptop could sit > beside the piano and everything would be lovely … > > … except … any PDF reader will display 2 pages side by side. On a monitor > with a 4:1 aspect ratio, this means that half of it is unused. Despite > searching for a week, I haven't found any PDF reader which even thinks that > wasting 50% of the display area is a bad idea. Does anyone know of any PDF > reader which will display more than 2 pages at once? This is the best > solution I have so far thought of. Other suggestions would be very welcome. > > On the other hand, I spend a huge percentage of my time playing music I've > typed into LilyPond. It would be very easy to make a PDF file where pages > were 4:1 and landscape. But rather than have a single line of music 80cm > long, it would be good to have the page divided into four 20cm panels. > Could someone tell me how to ask LilyPond to put music into columns? So > far, I've only been able to find out about how to ask LilyPond to put words > into columns. > > Many thanks in advance > Paul McKay > >
