Re: creating png snippets that aren't the full paper size

[Francisco Vila]

2008/6/22 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> You read AU 4.6.3 Inserting LilyPond output into other programs,
> from the 2.11 docs.  Actually, I think this exists in the 2.10
> docs as well, albeit in a different document.

> On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:43:32 +1000
> "Matthew Rowles" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> How can I create png output of a small snippet that is cropped to the
>> size of the snippet, a la the lilypond documentation? I want to create
>> images to put into a Word document. (It already exists, and I don't
>> see the need to redo it all in LaTeX, especially as I don't really
>> know LaTeX)
>>
>> lilypond --png score.ly creates a full page image, lilypond -dpreview
>> score.ly uses only the first line of the score (as it says in the
>> documentation), but it is cropped to the music margins.

After a quick test I can say that the method in the manual for an
"useful EPS" does work, while the same options (changing to --png) and
paper block does not produce a 'minimal' PNG but a large page. We
should investigate this...

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Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
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