Re: Formatting a blank sheet

[Stephen Torri]

I must comment my own email. What I see when it prints out is different
from viewing it in a PDF format. What is see is that KPDF opens the
sheet at 200%. When I set it to 100% I see that its much smaller. What I
was wondering if I need to set the page size to say that I would like to
print out on 8.5in x 11in paper?

Right now the empty staff are 117mm wide.

Also how do I change the cleff symbol to "G_8"? I normally put this a
\context Voice.

Stephen

On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 18:59 -0500, Stephen Torri wrote:
> I tried to use the blank sheet example found in the documentation. While
> I like the fact I see the treble and tab staffs I would like the page to
> have at least a 5mm border around the page. I have tried to change the
> line-width variable in the paper definition. I see that the line-width =
> 160mm - 2.0 * 0.4in
>                     = 160mm - 2.0 * 10.16mm
>                     = 160mm - 20.32mm
>                 = 139.68mm
> 
> Looking at a ruler this value makes sense given the page. I see this
> should give me at least a 0.4 inch border around the page. What I don't
> understand is the syntax of the next line that calculates line-width:
> 
>   line-width = #(- line-width (* mm  3.000000))
> 
> Is this saying that the line-width will be set to 419.04mm?
> 
> Stephen
> 
> ---------------------------
> 
> %% Generated by lilypond-book.py
> %% Options: [quote,alt=[image of music],indent=0\mm,verbatim]
> \include "lilypond-book-preamble.ly"
> 
> 
> % ****************************************************************
> % Start cut-&-pastable-section 
> % ****************************************************************
> 
> \paper {
>   #(define dump-extents #t)
>   
>   line-width = 160\mm - 2.0 * 0.4\in
>   indent = 0\mm
>   force-assignment = #""
>   line-width = #(- line-width (* mm  3.000000))
> }
> 
> \layout {
>   
> }
> 
> 
> 
> % ****************************************************************
> % ly snippet:
> % ****************************************************************
> \sourcefileline 2200
> \layout{ indent = #0 }
> emptymusic = {
>   \repeat unfold 2 % Change this for more lines.
>   { s1\break }
>   \bar "|."
> }
> \new Score \with {
>   \override TimeSignature #'transparent = ##t
> % un-comment this line if desired
> %  \override Clef #'transparent = ##t
>   defaultBarType = #""
>   \remove Bar_number_engraver
> } <<
> 
> % modify these to get the staves you want
>   \new Staff \emptymusic
>   \new TabStaff \emptymusic
> >>
> 
> 
> 
> % ****************************************************************
> % end ly snippet
> % ****************************************************************
> 
> 
> 
> 
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