Re: Music fragments with Lilypond?

[andrea valle]

Of course, with Preview on Mac OSX one can crop pdf.
(Moreover, Preview is scriptable, but I've never used apple script)

-a-


On 28 Oct 2005, at 22:30, John Wiedenhoeft wrote:

> I'm not sure this exists for mac as well, but on linux you could use 
> pdfcrop to cut the white areas away. I think there must be a source of 
> that program somewhere (it's command line based, pretty simple, but 
> pretty effective). Be sure you include
>
> \header{        
> copyright = ""
> tagline = ""}
>
> in your file since otherwise pdfcrop will keep the space between the 
> music fragment and the bottom line.
>
> Best regards,
> John
>
> P.S. There could be some spacing problems. I posted on that some days 
> ago, but unfortunately didn't get a reply...
>
>
> Edwin Vane wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've been playing with Lilypond since about yesterday so I'm pretty 
> > new.
> > I need a few figures for my thesis and the pdf output of lilypond on 
> > mac
> > os x is pretty nifty. Except I can't coax it into just giving me a pdf
> > of the music itself. I always get empty space as if it were trying to
> > fill the page. Is there any way to tell Lilypond to generate just the
> > music fragment and nothing else?
> > My current work around is to use lilypond-book on a test tex file. 
> > Once
> > it generates the eps files, I manually turn them into pdf to include 
> > in
> > my thesis. I was hoping for a better way.
>
>
>
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Andrea Valle
DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione
Università degli Studi di Torino
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