Re: Thin bars

2009-01-19 Thread Johan Vromans
Fibonacci Prower fibonacci.pro...@gmail.com writes: Well, I just tried printing it, and the bars look even worse - not only are they too thick, they also seem to be a bit too long, so that they go beyond the limits of the staff on both sides This definitely looks like the problem discussed

Re: Thin bars

2009-01-19 Thread Johan Vromans
Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl writes: This definitely looks like the problem discussed here earlier. See message m2bpydhhgo@phoenix.squirrel.nl and thread. http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/lpev.png shows an example. -- Johan ___

Re: Thin bars

2009-01-19 Thread Francisco Vila
These links show already filed bugs on the issue. I am completely sure that I myself filed a bug on poppler or libpoppler regarding to the lilypond barlines, but I cannot find the URL despite of having been searching for half an hour now. Poppler is the PDF rendering library of evince, if I'm not

Re: Thin bars

2009-01-19 Thread Fibonacci Prower
Well, I just tried printing the document with Adobe Reader under WinXP. At least the bars have just the right length, but they still look too thick. Even if I still used Evince, I could take care of that if there were any way to hand-tune the length and thickness of the bars. How do I do that?

Re: Thin bars

2009-01-19 Thread Dmytro O. Redchuk
Hello, here is the doc: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals/BarLine#BarLine and snip: % - \layout { \context { \Score \override BarLine

Re: Thin bars

2009-01-18 Thread Fibonacci Prower
Well, I just tried printing it, and the bars look even worse - not only are they too thick, they also seem to be a bit too long, so that they go beyond the limits of the staff on both sides (not sure if I'm making myself clear on that one). Is there any way to change that? 2009/1/16 Mats

Re: Thin bars

2009-01-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Fibonacci Prower, Well, I just tried printing it, and the bars look even worse - not only are they too thick, they also seem to be a bit too long, so that they go beyond the limits of the staff on both sides I've used Lilypond since v1.8, and I've never seen something like what you're

Re: Thin bars

2009-01-17 Thread Nicholas Wastell
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:59:47 -0700 Andrew Hawryluk ahawry...@gmail.com wrote: Evince has a problem with the barlines (it's a bug). On Ubuntu, I work in Evince while I'm writing, but I print the final PDF from Adobe Acrobat. xpdf also does a good job and is lighter than Acroread. It's in the

Thin bars

2009-01-16 Thread Fibonacci Prower
Hello, Simply put, I find the default bars in lilypond too thick - whether they be the bars automatically put between beats, or the ones inserted by using \bar something. Is there any way to make them thinner? -- $0='!/msfQ0yjoV!fe!sfldbi!psup!pmpT'x19xor print+map{(\e[7m \e[0m, chr

Re: Thin bars

2009-01-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I hope you refer to what you see on a printed paper copy and not to what you see on the screen using Acrobat reader. As has been discussed on the mailing list, there are some issues with how the bar lines show up on the screen. /Mats Fibonacci Prower wrote: Hello, Simply put, I find the

Re: Thin bars

2009-01-16 Thread Fibonacci Prower
I'm using Evince, not Acrobat reader. Could you please point me to a previous discussion on the subject? 2009/1/16 Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se: I hope you refer to what you see on a printed paper copy and not to what you see on the screen using Acrobat reader. As has been discussed

Re: Thin bars

2009-01-16 Thread Neil Thornock
What does the hard-copy print-out look like? Here's a start; there are other (and lengthier) discussions as well. http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg15017.html http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg32997.html -- Neil Thornock, D.M. Assistant Professor of Music

Re: Thin bars

2009-01-16 Thread Andrew Hawryluk
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Fibonacci Prower fibonacci.pro...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using Evince, not Acrobat reader. Evince has a problem with the barlines (it's a bug). On Ubuntu, I work in Evince while I'm writing, but I print the final PDF from Adobe Acrobat. Andrew

Re: Thin bars

2009-01-16 Thread Johan Vromans
Andrew Hawryluk ahawry...@gmail.com writes: Evince has a problem with the barlines (it's a bug). On Ubuntu, I work in Evince while I'm writing, but I print the final PDF from Adobe Acrobat. Alternatively, you can just lpr the pdf. -- Johan ___

Re: Thin bars

2009-01-16 Thread M Watts
Fibonacci Prower wrote: Hello, Simply put, I find the default bars in lilypond too thick I find the default bars, and other output, exactly the right weight when it's 3 feet away on my music stand! ___ lilypond-user mailing list