Re: Question about @lilypond options for creating smaller page examples within our Doc
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:47:18AM +, James Lowe wrote:
> It seems to me that I cannot create an explicit output size by
> specifying height and width dimensions, like I can specify a
> line length within a @lilypond [xxx] variable.
Hmm. Is there a difference between "width dimension" and "line
length" ?
(non-rhetorical question; I honestly don't know)
> So I thought that if we had a 'custom' entry in the
> scm/paper.scm file - I experimented with some sizes and it seems
> that having a height of 35mm is enough to get a line of music, a
> header/title and a footer - that we could simply refer to that
> within the @lilypond [xxx] variables. But I cannot see what
> option to use or if it is possible.
Oh, that would be a nice idea. Like a "tinypage" paper size.
I do not believe that we can use a [pagesize=xyz] option in
lilypond-book yet, but adding this could be a nice Frog task.
(not for James, but for somebody else)
If nobody points out a better way of doing this, let's add a
feature request to the tracker.
> I could just explicitly put a \paper {} variable within the
> @lilypond construct but this isn't as neat and I can't see which
> option to use in the @lilypond [xxx] variable to force it to use
> the \paper {} either.
Definitely agreed there!
Cheers,
- Graham
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Question about @lilypond options for creating smaller page examples within our Doc
Hello,
While editing the NR 3.2 section on Titles and Headers it seems it would be
nice to be able to create 'smaller' (or rather, shorter) ' whole page output'
when processing @lilypond examples, so as to show simple things like page
breaks, tag lines and headers and footers without having to display a whole
Letter/A4 page of blank space.
I've takne a look in the usage documents for lilypond-book and Texinfo but I
need some advice.
It seems to me that I cannot create an explicit output size by specifying
height and width dimensions, like I can specify a line length within a
@lilypond [xxx] variable.
So I thought that if we had a 'custom' entry in the scm/paper.scm file - I
experimented with some sizes and it seems that having a height of 35mm is
enough to get a line of music, a header/title and a footer - that we could
simply refer to that within the @lilypond [xxx] variables. But I cannot see
what option to use or if it is possible.
I could just explicitly put a \paper {} variable within the @lilypond construct
but this isn't as neat and I can't see which option to use in the @lilypond
[xxx] variable to force it to use the \paper {} either.
Thanks for your help.
James
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