Re: pasting lilypond output into a Word document

[Jon Wild]

Diosnel's suggestion below might have been a good idea if I were starting 
from scratch, but there's just been too much work put into formatting, 
tweaking tables, importing equations and so forth that there's no way I'm 
going to scrap it and learn how to do all that in lilypond-book (is it 
even possible?). Plus, unfortunately, I wouldn't think academic music 
journals would accept a submission in such an "exotic" format. (Some 
journals even require music examples in a submission to be typeset in 
Finale and to follow very specific style guidelines.)

I *was* going to format the lilypond output so I could include the pages 
of the pdf directly in the larger document, with page numbers adjusted so 
they fit in sequence - but even that has proved impractical. (For example, 
I need to have page numbers at the bottom of my page, and this doesn't 
seem to be an option as far as I can tell. Also, I have to shrink one 
example so it doesn't run onto 2 systems, and I haven't found a way to 
shrink just one score in a book that contains many scores. I can change 
staff size and font size but I can't decrease the spacing--so it takes the 
same horizontal space in the end.)

Michael Millett is surely correct about Word not preserving vector-based 
graphics. Still I'm at a loss as to why a bitmap will come out worse when 
it hasn't been resized. I guess it's Word's conversion routine... maybe if 
there were a way to get Adobe Reader to paste bmp data to the clipboard 
instead it would work better.


On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Diosnel Herrnsdorf wrote:

> Why not try with lilypond-book? You'd be skipping Word.
>
> Regards,
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Wild" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 22:48
> Subject: pasting lilypond output into a Word document
>
>
> > I'm in a Windows environment at the moment, and I'm adding music examples 
> > rendered by Lilypond to a Word document. I'm getting quite low printout 
> > quality. I'm copying the music from the pdf file (using the "snapshot tool" 
> > in Adobe Reader 7.0 while viewing at 100%, then drawing a marquee around 
> > what I want copied, which sends the selection to the clipboard) and pasting 
> > into the Word document. The selection is not so large that Word has to 
> > reduce it to fit the page. But the result looks much worse than if I print 
> > the pdf file directly.
> >
> > Is there a better way to do this? Many thanks, again.
> >
> > --Jon Wild
> >
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Jon Wild
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Schulich School of Music
McGill University
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