Re: Letter page length too long

[Michael Haynie]

I am using the app version (I'm unable to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.4 for 
other reasons, so can't use the newest fink, either), so dvips is not 
involved.

I set the vsize in the paper block, and was able to control the length 
of the page, so I have a reasonable work around for the basic problem.

However, I'm now convinced that I'm seeing a real bug (though nearly 
trivial to fix)-- the paper size for letter doesn't account for the 
required machine borders (typically 1/2" at each margin, for a total 
reduction of 1").  This might also be true for other paper sizes -- but 
I'm unable to test those.  I looked around in the ly sources for a set 
of paper definitions, but didn't find anything.  Does anyone know where 
the dimensions for e.g. letter paper are set?  I'd guess that 5 minutes 
with a ruler and that file would allow me to determine the most likely 
wrong dimension (vsize, at a guess).

thanks.

On Oct 23, 2005, at 4:44 AM, Erik Sandberg wrote:

> On Sunday 23 October 2005 09.02, Graham Percival wrote:
> > On 22-Oct-05, at 9:39 PM, Michael Haynie wrote:
> > > I've noticed that Lilypond consistently produces pages that are
> > > roughly 1/2 a line too long, with the result that my footer line is
> > > cut off.
> >
> > It's not actually lilypond; it's dvips.
>
> No, it can't be dvips. Since 2.6, lily doesn't go via tex/dvi, so 
> dvips is
> never invoked. The .ps file is created directly, so this must be a 
> problem
> specific to lily.
>
> I don't know anything about letter size papers, since I only have used 
> a4
> myself. But IIRC, there is an example in regression tests, which 
> demonstrates
> how page sizes can be completely customised.
>
> --
> Erik