Re: how to make a songbook
Il 11/12/2011 22:53, Father Gordon Gilbert ha scritto: Hi all, I've been using LilyPond for some time now, always to make lead sheets, or single- and multiple-page individual songs, mostly for church use. I now have quite a store of Christmas carols and similar which I'd like to do up into a booklet, perhaps printed ;landscape on letter or legal paper. I don't need to get fancy with page numbers or anything like that, as long as all my booklets are printed the same. I would use just Lilypond. I made simple books just using \include and lilypond. It occurs to me that if I could import them into OpenOffice I could re-size them and arrange them there with a minimum of fuss -- I did that a few years ago (version 2.5.x), but I can't remember what I did there. How does one make a lily output suitable to import into OOo? (PNG?) I quickly tried OooLily once, more than a year ago. Anyway the good news is that it can handle Lilypond code directly, you don't need to run lilypond before, as explained here: http://ooolilypond.sourceforge.net/ Don't know if you have to copy and paste or if you can also include an external file. Another option is Scribus: http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=renderframes ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: how to make a songbook
Le Dec 11, 2011 à 11:14 PM, Federico Bruni a écrit : > Il 11/12/2011 22:53, Father Gordon Gilbert ha scritto: >> Hi all, >> >> I've been using LilyPond for some time now, always to make lead >> sheets, or single- and multiple-page individual songs, mostly for >> church use. I now have quite a store of Christmas carols and similar >> which I'd like to do up into a booklet, perhaps printed ;landscape on >> letter or legal paper. I don't need to get fancy with page numbers or >> anything like that, as long as all my booklets are printed the same. >> > > I would use just Lilypond. > I made simple books just using \include and lilypond. To do this, you can check out http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/multiple-scores-in-a-book Cheers, MS___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: how to make a songbook
Good news! Right after I posted that request, I finally found the entry I wanted to make PNG files, and have been merrily compiling my various songs and doing the png command in LilyPondTool (the Console is handy for this), and pasting the PNGs in a OOo document, with the apparent ability to resize them as I need. I did go to the reference you suggested, and will carefully digest that. If my OOo experiment doesn't work as I hope, I'll go to that method next. I also looked at OOoLilyPond, and couldn't make head nor tail of it, so gave that up as a lost cause. Also looks as if it's not well supported -- especially compared to LilyPondTool. Thanks for that, Bertalan! Blessings, Gordon+ Fr. Gordon Gilbert Penetanguishene, ON, Canada ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: how to make a songbook
Father Gordon Gilbert writes: > Good news! > > Right after I posted that request, I finally found the entry I wanted > to make PNG files, and have been merrily compiling my various songs > and doing the png command in LilyPondTool (the Console is handy for > this), and pasting the PNGs in a OOo document, with the apparent > ability to resize them as I need. "Apparent" is the correct term for resizing bitmaps. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: how to make a songbook
> -- > > Message: 6 > Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:49:46 +0100 > From: David Kastrup > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: how to make a songbook > Message-ID: <87iplmcmid@fencepost.gnu.org> > Content-Type: text/plain > > Father Gordon Gilbert writes: > >> Good news! >> >> Right after I posted that request, I finally found the entry I wanted >> to make PNG files, and have been merrily compiling my various songs >> and doing the png command in LilyPondTool (the Console is handy for >> this), and pasting the PNGs in a OOo document, with the apparent >> ability to resize them as I need. > > "Apparent" is the correct term for resizing bitmaps. > > -- > David Kastrup > OOoh! What should I be looking for? So far in the OOo document the display looks fine. Even at fairly high magnitude. My son also made a cryptic comment about 300 dpi. I *am* prepared to give this up as a lost cause if it looks ugly, but so far with about 26 songs in my book, it looks OK. Blessings, Gordon+ -- Fr. Gordon Gilbert Penetanguishene, ON ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: how to make a songbook
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 06:20:30AM -0500, Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: > OOoh! What should I be looking for? So far in the OOo document the > display looks fine. Even at fairly high magnitude. My son also made > a cryptic comment about 300 dpi. I *am* prepared to give this up as a > lost cause if it looks ugly, but so far with about 26 songs in my > book, it looks OK. If you make a bitmap larger, the quality degrades. Try printing out 1 page of your document, then look at it with a magnifying glass. ** do not rely on looking at the computer screen ** Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: how to make a songbook
On 12 December 2011 06:49, Graham Percival wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 06:20:30AM -0500, Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: > > OOoh! What should I be looking for? So far in the OOo document the > > display looks fine. Even at fairly high magnitude. My son also made > > a cryptic comment about 300 dpi. I *am* prepared to give this up as a > > lost cause if it looks ugly, but so far with about 26 songs in my > > book, it looks OK. > > If you make a bitmap larger, the quality degrades. Try printing > out 1 page of your document, then look at it with a magnifying > glass. > > ** do not rely on looking at the computer screen ** > > Cheers, > - Graham Thanks Graham, I did print out one page, and while some of the type is a little fuzzy, it's all readable. Basically I've taken letter-size pages and pasted them into OOo, and re-sized them as necessary, also cutting off the footer at the bottom, and if possible, stretching the song to fill the page (half of a legal-size page). I think I'm onto something here that will fill the bill for what I need. Looking at the printed copy, I will experiment with proportions and sizing some more. Blessings, Gordon+ -- Fr. Gordon Gilbert Penetanguishene, ON ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: how to make a songbook
The solution is simple: use vector graphics. Added bonus: with an svg, you can tweak the details (spacing, etc.) in Inkscape, really easily. I do that, then save as an eps, and then put it into Scribus. It's a few steps, to be sure, but I love the results. Chris McConnell Message: 4 Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 03:49:08 -0800 From: Graham Percival To: Father Gordon Gilbert Cc: David Kastrup , lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: how to make a songbook Message-ID: <20111212114908.GA16408@chikara> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 06:20:30AM -0500, Father Gordon Gilbert wrote: > OOoh! What should I be looking for? So far in the OOo document the > display looks fine. Even at fairly high magnitude. My son also made > a cryptic comment about 300 dpi. I *am* prepared to give this up as a > lost cause if it looks ugly, but so far with about 26 songs in my > book, it looks OK. If you make a bitmap larger, the quality degrades. Try printing out 1 page of your document, then look at it with a magnifying glass. ** do not rely on looking at the computer screen ** Cheers, - Graham___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: how to make a songbook
On 13/12/11 03:10, Christian McConnell wrote: The solution is simple: use vector graphics. Added bonus: with an svg, you can tweak the details (spacing, etc.) in Inkscape, really easily. I do that, then save as an eps, and then put it into Scribus. It's a few steps, to be sure, but I love the results. Or you can use a render frame in Scribus and embed your Lilypond code directly in the frame. Here's a PDF from Scribus using that method to test a two column layout of short arpeggio exercises. Nick test.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: how to make a songbook
> > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:21:30 +1100 > From: Nick Payne > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: how to make a songbook > Message-ID: <4ee6705a.5050...@internode.on.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" > > On 13/12/11 03:10, Christian McConnell wrote: >> The solution is simple: use vector graphics. Added bonus: with an svg, >> you can tweak the details (spacing, etc.) in Inkscape, really easily. >> >> I do that, then save as an eps, and then put it into Scribus. It's a >> few steps, to be sure, but I love the results. > > Or you can use a render frame in Scribus and embed your Lilypond code > directly in the frame. Here's a PDF from Scribus using that method to > test a two column layout of short arpeggio exercises. > > Nick > -- next part -- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/attachments/20111213/dd8f4687/attachment.html> > -- next part -- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: test.pdf > Type: application/pdf > Size: 18887 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/attachments/20111213/dd8f4687/attachment.pdf> > > -- Yeah, can you send that attachment directly to me? My gmail on firefox on dialup doesn't give me a link I can use to retrieve it. Just might be the way to go for what I want to do. Thanks, Gordon+ -- Fr. Gordon Gilbert Penetanguishene, ON ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
