Re: smallest possible bounding box

[Simon Albrecht]

Hello Carl-Henrik,

please always keep communication on-list, except if it is really 
private. Thus others can step in when I can’t help, and the information 
will be available to others searching the archives.

On 17.01.2016 12:27, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote:
> > 17. jan. 2016 kl. 12.22 skrev Simon Albrecht <address@hidden 
> > <mailto:address@hidden>>:
> >
> > On 17.01.2016 12:10, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote:
> > > 2) I need to export pngs for my latex documents and i would like the 
> > > bounding box to be as small as possible. How do i do this?
> >
> > It’s not quite clear what you want.
>
> When making snippets I dont need the entire A4 paper, i just need the 
> music. The bounding box is the area exported, or cropped if you like. 
> In Sibelius i can check a box and it eliminates all unnecessary white 
> space.

I have two ideas, both of which may not be what you need:
– the -dpreview option: it crops the output to show only the first 
system, without margins. Of course, this won’t be your choice if you 
want multiple systems.
– Manually adjusting margins (as I already suggested) and 
paper-height/-width. See 
<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/page-layout>.

Maybe others know of better methods?

HTH, Simon