Re: papersize problem

2003-09-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The simple reason is that the ly2dvi script doesn't know about the legal and ledger paper sizes. I just tried to add the support but ran into a small problem; Would you expect a ledger paper to be used mainly in landscape or in portrait orientation? It turns out that dvips (that we use to convert

Re: papersize problem

2003-09-19 Thread Laura Conrad
Mats == Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mats Would you expect a ledger paper to be used mainly in landscape or Mats in portrait orientation? It turns out that dvips (that we use to Mats convert .dvi to .ps files) expects ledger paper to be 17inch wide Mats and 11inch

Re: papersize problem

2003-09-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You will still have support for both, since tabloid+landscape=ledger. /Mats Laura Conrad wrote: Mats == Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mats Would you expect a ledger paper to be used mainly in landscape or Mats in portrait orientation? It turns out that dvips (that we use

Re: papersize problem

2003-09-19 Thread Peter Lutek
yes, AFAIK common usage is tabloid for portrait (11x17) and ledger for landscape (17x11). since portrait is probably more generally useful, i would suggest switching 'ledger' to 'tabloid', and maintaining portrait orientation. of course, having both options available would be even better! :)

Re: papersize problem

2003-09-19 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Friday 19 September 2003 05:37 am, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Would you expect a ledger paper to be used mainly in landscape or Rename ledger to ledger-tabloid. Is there some reason for not having ledger-[portrait] and ledger-landscape? You can add them and also legal-tabloid later and not have

papersize problem

2003-09-03 Thread Peter Lutek
greetings! on my installation of lilypond (1.8.0 on RedHat9), if i attempt to use papersize = legal or papersize = ledger, i get an ly2dvi warning saying legal or ledger is an invalid value. letter, a3, and a4 are all ok. ledger-init.ly , legal-init.ly , a3-init.ly , a4-init.ly , and