Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-23 Thread J Martin Rushton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erm, the French like adopting and boasting about cutting devices. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Gibbet for an earlier example. There is a discussion at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine#Precursors about earlier designs. ;-) On 23/0

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-23 Thread Calixte Faure
We call it massicot in French, I just found out it comes from its inventor Guillaume Massiquot: seems that French people like creating cutting machines! :D 2015-04-23 14:42 GMT+02:00 Kieren MacMillan : > Hi Karl, > > > a good paper cutter (what's the right word?) > > Guillotine. =) > Yes, I’m se

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-23 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Karl, > a good paper cutter (what's the right word?) Guillotine. =) Yes, I’m serious. Cheers, Kieren. Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info ___ lilypond

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-23 Thread karl
Reinhold: > Am 2015-04-23 um 12:05 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: > > I staple the A3's in the middle with an ordinary stapler (without > > using it's anvil(?)) on a medium soft board (so the staples gets > > through) and fold the staple? pins on the inside flat, > > For this, I can really recommend

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-23 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am 2015-04-23 um 12:05 schrieb k...@aspodata.se: I staple the A3's in the middle with an ordinary stapler (without using it's anvil(?)) on a medium soft board (so the staples gets through) and fold the staple? pins on the inside flat, For this, I can really recommend a special long arm stapler

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-23 Thread karl
Andrew: > What size paper do you print scores on? I usually use (for the choir) paper-width = 190 \mm paper-height = 270 \mm (I got that size from a Bärenreiter choirbook), I print it out as folded A3 and cut it down to the right size. Yes, an A3 printer and a good paper cutter (what's

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-22 Thread Mattes
Am Dienstag, 21. April 2015 14:44 CEST, "Mattes" schrieb: > (define pair-or-rational? (thing) > (or >(pair? thing) >(rational? thing))) As Orm Finnenahl correctly observed I unconsciously slipped into Common Lisp :-/ Here's the Scheme variant: (define (pair-or-ration

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-21 Thread Shane Brandes
8.5" x 11" sometimes other sizes when printing orchestral scores. What is the point of this survey? Shane On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: > Am 21.04.2015 um 14:44 schrieb Mattes: >> >> Am Dienstag, 21. April 2015 14:23 CEST, Simon Albrecht >> schrieb: >> >>> >>> ... Yet

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 21.04.2015 um 14:44 schrieb Mattes: Am Dienstag, 21. April 2015 14:23 CEST, Simon Albrecht schrieb: ... Yet I have taken inspiration from there to create the attached tool for making nice margins, which I’ve been using ever since. Hmm, maybe I miss the obvious, but in your code: (d

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-21 Thread Mattes
Am Dienstag, 21. April 2015 14:23 CEST, Simon Albrecht schrieb: > ... Yet I have taken inspiration from there to create the > attached tool for making nice margins, which I’ve been using ever since. > Hmm, maybe I miss the obvious, but in your code: (define pair-or-rational? (or pair? r

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-21 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 20.04.2015 um 08:45 schrieb Andrew Bernard: So Ponders, What size paper do you print scores on? I haven’t yet tried to use any other format than A4 (except for printing brochures on folded A3), although I learned from (only in German,

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-21 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 20 Apr 2015 5:27 pm, "Orm Finnendahl" < orm.finnend...@selma.hfmdk-frankfurt.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > for the orchestra parts I used B4 portrait. Orchestra musicians love > this format as this fits well on a music stand (A3 is too big) and > fits more music than A4 (less page turns). I also used

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Andrew, > What size paper do you print scores on? Full orchestra scores: U.S. tabloid (11x17) portrait Choral octavo scores: U.S. tabloid (11x17) landscape, folded/stapled and trimmed to octavo booklet-face dimension (7x10.5) Organ scores: usually U.S. tabloid (11x17) landscape, trimmed to st

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-20 Thread tyronicus
US. Since I'm in the US I print on tabloid paper (~A3) and trim it down. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Paper-size-survey-tp174825p174854.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypo

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-20 Thread Urs Liska
Am 20.04.2015 um 09:17 schrieb Richard Shann: On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 08:50 +0200, Urs Liska wrote: Am 20.04.2015 um 08:45 schrieb Andrew Bernard: So Ponders, What size paper do you print scores on? I use A4 exclusively, only because that's my printer's capacity (and its cheap locally). I'm pri

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-20 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, for the orchestra parts I used B4 portrait. Orchestra musicians love this format as this fits well on a music stand (A3 is too big) and fits more music than A4 (less page turns). I also used thicker paper (120 g/m2) and a special binding method (glue and tape) to make the pages stay open and

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-20 Thread Richard Shann
On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 08:50 +0200, Urs Liska wrote: > Am 20.04.2015 um 08:45 schrieb Andrew Bernard: > > So Ponders, > > What size paper do you print scores on? > > I use A4 exclusively, only because that's my printer's capacity (and its cheap locally). I'm primarily creating stuff for my own use,

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-19 Thread Urs Liska
Am 20.04.2015 um 08:45 schrieb Andrew Bernard: So Ponders, What size paper do you print scores on? A4 exclusively, sometimes folded A3 (but only when letting print through external service providers). But I always suffer from that being somewhat too small for really usable scores. If I ha

Re: Paper size survey

2015-04-19 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Andrew, I use A4 for most "small" or "normal" scores (SATB choir). Sometimes A5 But full scores for the director with an orchestral score I use B4 - sometimes A3. Cheers, Jan-Peter Am 20.04.2015 um 08:45 schrieb Andrew Bernard: So Ponders, What size paper do you print scores on? Andrew

Paper size survey

2015-04-19 Thread Andrew Bernard
So Ponders, What size paper do you print scores on? Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user