Re: papersize problem

[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!  :)

-p

Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> 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