Re: overhead projection of lilypond scores

[Jonathan Kulp]

Not sure if you'll like this suggestion or not, but I created a 
yellow-on-blue score image by creating a cropped png with transparent 
background (all the score stuff turned yellow of course), then used the 
Open-Office Presentation program to put the image on a slide and then 
change the background to blue.  From there you could either just show 
the presentation on the screen or export as any number of image formats. 
 Here's my test, posted online b/c the attachment was too big for the 
list (not a hymn but you'll get the idea):

http://www.jonathankulp.com/yellow-blue.png

HTH,

Jon

Gerry Prosser wrote:
> ** Reply to note from "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> Mon, 13 Oct 2008 
> 18:22:00 +0100
>
> Thanks to those who offered advice last week! I almost got to the point of
> incorporating lily into Sunday's PPT, but it was not quite good enough
> this time. 
>
> Trevor's snippets were very useful: colouring any sort of text anywhere on
> the page is a doddle, but colouring the background is (as he says) messy.
>
> Provided I stay within the vertical confines of the five stave lines I can
> add colour without anything else moving. But as soon as I extend the
> colour to include notes, clef and text above and below the stave, lily
> expands the inter-system 'white' space, giving a pyjama-stripe effect and
> pushing the music onto extra pages.
>
> The attached .ly file shows where I got to. Clearly, for a single screen
> refrain, I can (and did) cut and paste the three stripes into a single jpg
> using gimp. But for a full-length worship song that would be rather
> tedious. 
>
> If anyone can offer further advice for controlling the inter-system space
> generation (or any other suggestions), I would be most grateful!
>
> Gerry Prosser
> tel: 023 8026 8942 / mobile: 07785 291052
>
>
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