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
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
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
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! :)
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
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
