RE: Changing program defaults

[Daniel Rosen]

That's exactly what I was looking for. I only upgrade with each stable release, 
which is infrequently enough that I can deal with doing this each time I 
install a new version. Thanks!

DR


-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Payne [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2012 11:22 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Changing program defaults

On 28/10/12 14:07, Nick Payne wrote:
> On 28/10/12 14:01, Daniel Rosen wrote:
>> I'm sorry, I should have been more clear--I'm trying to figure out how to 
>> change the program files so that I don't have to put that in every single 
>> document.
> You can run lilypond with the command line parameter
>
> -dpaper-size=\"letter\"

Actually, if you open lily.scm in an editor, look for the text string 
paper-size "a4" and change it to paper-size "letter", that will change the 
default paper size without having to specify anything on the command line or 
source file(s). But the default will go back to A4 each time you install a new 
version of Lilypond and get a new version of lily.scm.

On Linux, lily.scm is in
/usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/scm if installed as root or the 
corresponding path under ~/lilypond if installed in your home dir. Don't know 
what the path is on Windows.

Nick