Re: Wide screen Windows question
Not a PDF viewer, but if you open a PDF file in Firefox and select Wrapped Scrolling from the Tools menu (the >> button), you should see pages side-by-side dependent upon your Zoom settings and how wide you have resized your Firefox window. Just play with the zoom % and window width to suit your taste, i.e., 4 pages side by side. Doesn't this also address your 2nd point? That is 1 page = 1 panel. On 2022-02-12 10:29, Paul McKay wrote: 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
Re: Wide screen Windows question
Hi Paul, please always include the list as well so that others may benefit. I too have used MobileSheets but find that having to import the PDF > files and manage the metadata is more of a chore than I would like. I > currently organize by folders and file names. But my copy of > MobileSheets is fully up to date and I can't get it to display more than > 2 sheets in a window. When I shrink the window, it happily resizes the > pages to fit the height, but never tries to show more than two at once. > I've check the /Display options/ in /Settings/ but didn't find anything > there that looked as though it might be causing this behaviour. Let me address the mentioned issues with MobileSheets: - file/folder organization: That's exactly what I do myself. I use Unison to sync between between my sheetmusic display device and my lilypond machine (if you don't have them separate, this can be ignored). Having to manually import new PDFs is somewhat tedious but since I also tag the files I have to deal with them sooner or later anyway. However I agree, I'd love an automation for that and had asked for it in the support forum a couple of years ago. - no more than 2 pages display: I'm not aware you can display more than 2 pages. What I find interesting from a performance point of view is, that you can connect external controllers (foot switches etc.) to do the page flipping forwards and backwards. For me that removes the need to have more than 2 pages displayed. Especially since the scrolling of pages during flipping is smooth (enough) to my eyes. Kind regards, Michael -- Michael Gerdau email: m...@qata.de GPG-keys available on request or at public keyserver
Re: Wide screen Windows question
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 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 : > > 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 > >
Re: Wide screen Windows question
Hi Paul, [playing the piano from on screen PDFs] Before answering your lilypond questions let me point you towards MobileSheets from www.zubersoft.com I use it all the time as my music reader and it works like a charm. W/r to arbitrary number of columns on a sheet of paper: Adobe Acrobat Reader allows to print pages in an arbitrary pattern on almost arbitrary sized paper. Instead of choosing a printer you could export as a PDF and then view this PDF on whatever device you like. You could also define whatever paper size you like in lilypond, but I'm not sure I'd go that way. Kind regards, Michael -- Michael Gerdau email: m...@qata.de GPG-keys available on request or at public keyserver
