Re: How to create smaller paper sizes

[Laurie Savage]

Mats,

Thanks - I think I'll be using a guillotine and guesswork!

Laurie

On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> It turns out that ly2dvi makes its own interpretation of the 
> pagesize paper variable, so you have to add some line in 
> ly2dvi as well. Unless you use ly2dvi -P, you will get 
> another surprise when you call dvips, since it uses its
> default page size even if you have specified some other
> page size in the geometry package in LaTeX (which is what
> ly2dvi does), so you have to use 'dvips -t a5'.
> At second thought, I'm afraid that dvips isn't configured
> to know about A5 paper by default, see 
> `kpsewhich --format='dvips config' config.ps`.
> 
> 
>   /Mats
> 
> > On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> > 
> > > > I am transcribing some music for a marching band and need to set it on
> > > > A5(landscape). I created a file A5.ly based on A4.ly with altered 
> > > > height and
> > > > width and used referred to that in my scores but the music was printed 
> > > > on
> > > > A4(portrait)
> > > 
> > > Did you follow the instructions at
> > > http://lilypond.org/stable/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Page-layout.html#Page%20layout
> > > 
> > >    /Mats
> > > 
> > 
> > Yes
> > 
> > Here is the opening of my file enea.ly and the file a5.ly which lives in
> > /usr/share/lilypond/ly. If I add sufficient bars to more than fill a small
> > sheet, a new page is not added automatically as it would with music
> > covering more than one a4 sheet.
> > 
> > a5.ly
> > ==================
> > \version "1.3.146"
> > % a5.ly
> > 
> > hsize = 210.0 \mm
> > vsize = 148.5 \mm
> > 
> > Enea.ly
> > ================
> > \paper{ papersize = "a5" }
> > \include "paper16.ly"
> > 
> > \header{
> >     title = "Enea"
> >     composer = "Viaris"
> >     instrument = "Baritone sax. (E flat)"
> > }
> > 
> > \score{
> > \notes \relative c''
> > \sequential{
> >     \time 2/4
> >     \key c \major
> > {
> > g8 r d r | g g r4 | [d'8 c b a] | g r r4
> > \repeat "volta" 2 {
> > \repeat "percent" 6 {c,8 r g' r}
> > d8 r g r d r r4 \repeat "percent" 6 {d8 r g r}
> > c r g r | c r r4 \repeat "percent" 5 {c8 r g r}
> > c8 r c r | f, f4 c8 | f r r4 | d8 \< r a' \! r
> > }}}}
> > 
> > -- 
> > Laurie Savage
> > 
> > Science @ Pascoe Vale Girls' College
> > 03 9306 2544
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Laurie Savage

Science @ Pascoe Vale Girls' College
03 9306 2544