Alas, I am on macintosh. Intel iMac, OSX 10.4 On Thursday, November 30, 2006, at 08:55AM, "Rick Hansen (aka RickH)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >James E. Bailey-2 wrote: >> >> I was reading the archives on how to define a custom page size, and >> I'm a little confused as to whether the issue was resolved, meaning, >> I've read the archives, and tried the suggestions there, but still >> cannot output my page size. >> >> I've added to the file "paper.scm" the line >> ("octavo" . (cons (* 6.75 in) (* 10.5 in))) >> and the music is typeset to those dimensions, but the paper is still >> a4 size. >> To be clear, my input file has >> \paper { #(set-paper-size "octavo") } >> #(set-default-paper-size "octavo") >> I'm just wondering if there's some aspect that I'm missing. >> >> And just to check, I ran the postscript through Preview, and got the >> same output. >> >> Thanks tons, >> >> James >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list >> lilypond-user@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >> >> > >Are you on Windows? If so you need to tell the operating system that >"octavo" is a new form. To do this go to: > >Settings / Control Panel / Printers > >>From this dialog box go to the File menu and select "Server Properties" > >On that dialog check the box that says "Create a new Form" > >At that point create your "octavo" form with the sizing you want and save it >with the name "octavo". > >Now the operating system and your printer drivers can play nice and both >understand this new form. > >HTH > > >-- >View this message in context: >http://www.nabble.com/paper-sizes-tf2732032.html#a7623104 >Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > >_______________________________________________ >lilypond-user mailing list >lilypond-user@gnu.org >http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > >
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