Re: A few lily 2.4 questions

[Mats Bengtsson]

Thomas Scharkowski wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using 2.4.0 on Suse 9.1.
>
> 1) 
> In a 2.2.4 document I had: \paper {linewidth=18 \cm}
> Convert-ly replaces "\paper" with "\layout", but this way I get different 
> margins on left and right sides of the page.
> I manually added a "\page" Block: \page {linewidth=18 \cm \leftmargin=1.5 \cm}
> Shouldn't convert-ly do this for me?

The default earlier was to use symmetric left and right margins,
I'm not sure how it works now.

> 2) 
> I have some Latex-commands in a lily document, so tried lilypond-latex.
> But this does not work. I get an error message:
>
> File "/usr/local//bin//lilypond-latex", line 725, in ?
>  os.chdir (tmpdir)
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
> '/tmp/tmp5GTB10/usr/local/bin/lilypond-latex'
> Could anyone help me with this?

Probably, the lilypond-latex script was never tested seriously
before the release, I can reproduce the bug here.

> 3)
> In the old document I had 
> opus = "\\normalfont \\small{transcribed by}"
> in the header block.
> I replaced it with opus = "\small {transcribed by}", but in the output this 
> line is shifted to the left. What is wrong here? Without "\small" it looks 
> ok.

Use \markup{...} commands if you want to change the default layout
in the title.

> 4)
> Any suggestions for:
> \set Staff.instrument = \markup {"\\textcircled{\\footnotesize \\textbf 3} = 
> fis"}, which worked very good in 2.2.4?

I'm afraid this requires some hacking. It has been on the wish list for
several years.

   /Mats