Re: generating graphic examples

[Graham Percival]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 08:28:02PM +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 28. Juli 2009 17:40:22 schrieb Josh Nichols:
> > I want to be able to generate graphic musical examples without getting it
> > formatted on a giant paper-formatted .pdf or .png.  How do I accomplish
> > this?
> 
> I was about to ask the same thing... I am able to create tighly clipped pdf 
> files with these settings (which are awkward to type/copy manually into each 
> snippet you want to create... Can't we define a global command that sets 
> these 
> as default values? Something like \setTrimmedOutput, which would set the 
> margins to 0 and cause lilypond to produce a pdf file with no margins around 
> the score without any need for strange command-line options...)

We most certain can do that, although starting a command with \set
is absolutely verboten.  (newbies get confused with \set and
\setCommandBlah)

Cheers,
- Graham