Re: exporting just a single bar in a png file?

[Mark Freeman]

This is exactly what I needed. Thank you!

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Patrick McCarty <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2009-10-27, Patrick McCarty wrote:
>> On 2009-10-26, Mark Freeman wrote:
>> > Hi everyone. I'm new to lilypond, so please bare with me.  I've
>> > written a simple python script which takes a very particular
>> > percussion notation and converts it to lilypond format. My script pops
>> > this into a template and calls the lilypond command to create the
>> > export.  Currently this produces a full pdf and I know I can turn on
>> > png export with --png. I tried setting the template to clip only one
>> > measure, but I still get a full page of output, even though the score
>> > only consist of a single measure. I'm looking to produce a simple
>> > image file that is only the single measure, with no extra score text,
>> > etc... Is this possible?
>>
>> Does the following command accomplish what you need?
>>
>>   $ lilypond --dpreview file.ly
>
> Sorry, this should be
>
>  $ lilypond -dpreview file.ly
>
>
> -Patrick
>