Re: 2 pages on 1 ?

[David Kastrup]

ananth p <address@hidden> writes:

> Multi-Column layout! I need that too.
>
> This is how I did this score (3 Columns)- http://www.twitpic.com/
> 2pie84
>
>  1. Calculate the width (and height?) of each column; set the page
>     size accordingly. (page width = column width)
>  2. Run LilyPond, output the score as PNGs.
>  3. Tailor PNGs. ImageMagick comes handy for this.

Ugh.  Create Postscript, then use psnup or similar to put multiple pages
to one.  If needed, follow up with pstopdf.

> Problems:
>
>  1. It's ugly job.

Can be scripted.

>  2. Not satisfied by the PNG's resolution. Score doesn't look sharp
>     enough. Workaround: render to bigger sized PNGs from lily.

Go via PostScript.

>  3. Page numbers, irrelevant and put in arbitrary columns.

Print without page numbers, attach afterwards.

> Again, is there a more appropriate way to setup multi-column scores?

TeX has the concept of a user-specified "output routine" which gets the
finished pages without headers/footers and then attaches
headers/footers/page numbers and so on.

Something like this would seem to be nice: being able to catch the
undecorated pages into boxes of specified size, still under control of
Lilypond.

-- 
David Kastrup