Re: How to produce a tiny example?

[Jonathan Kulp]

MonAmiPierrot wrote:
> Hello, I need to use several example (90% are tiny fragments) of music, many
> times just 2 or 3 measures of some melody with words for my musicological
> thesis.
> I'ma latex user and I DON'T want to use lilypond-book, because it's too
> difficoult to implement in LyX 1.6.1 (the editor I use) if one uses some
> complex external-pass packages such for example BibLaTeX.
> Anyway, I can bypass the use of lilypond-book by using normal lilypond. And
> here come my question:
>
> I can insert a Lilypond file in my LyX document, but it get it "as it is"
> and paste it in the page. That means it will be as big as a page.
> One solution would be to play with page and music dimensions and then zoom
> in/out the image in the document, but this is the dirty way.
> The best solution is that Lilypond could produce a pdf or ps file that is
> already clipped of all white space, left, right, top and bottom.
> I found an old post where someone explain how to have the vertical space
> clipped with this trick:
>
> \header{        
> copyright = "" 
> tagline = ""}
>
> as well as
> \paper{ragged-right=##t}
> (or ragged-last=##t if the excerpt is longer than 1 line) 
>
> but left and right space is still present and depends on the page size used
> by Lilypond.
>
> Is there a way to have Lilypond CLIP all blank space around and produce a
> pdf or ps file of the same size of the music written?
> Thanks
>
> -----
> Piero Faustini, PhD student
> Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche
> Sezione musicologia
> Università di Ferrara 
>
> Software used:
> - LyX 1.6.1 on WinXP; EndNote & JabRef
> - MikTex
> - LaTeX class: Koma book
> - Lilypond and MusixTeX for example excerpts
> - BibLaTeX for bibliographies 

Patrick Horgan and I wrote a program (actually a long shell script) that 
does exactly what you want, but it only works on Linux and Mac so far. 
Depending on your computer skills, you might be able to make it work on 
Windows using Cygwin--I've experimented a bit with this but I'm terrible 
on Windows and don't have the time to fiddle with it.  I'm attaching the 
script for you in case you want to try it out.  The main dependency is 
the netbpm suite of image manipulation tools, which is available freely 
for Windows.

Alternatively you could make a Linux partition or a Wubi Linux 
installation on your XP machine and run the program while booted into 
Linux.  Best of luck :)

Jon
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Jonathan Kulp
http://www.jonathankulp.com

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