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Re: papersize problem
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Mats Bengtsson |
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Re: papersize problem |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Sep 2003 11:37:28 +0200 |
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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 .dvi to .ps files) expects ledger paper to be 17inch wide
and 11inch high, i.e. in landscape orientation. Dvips uses 'tabloid'
to denote 17'x11' paper used in portrait orientation. The same
naming convention is described, for example, in
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=paper+sizes+tabloid&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=1995Jun8.104533.18767%40sei.cmu.edu&rnum=1
What do you think, should we rename 'ledger' to 'tabloid' or change
the definitions in ledger-init.ly to correspond to landscape
orientation?
/Mats
Peter Lutek wrote:
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
letter-init.ly all exist and appear to have the same syntax.
why do two of these size definitions not work?
-p