Re: Required font for simplified Chinese characters?

[Andrew Bernard]

HI Phil,

It's still very confusing for people, I claim. This landscape business having two modes is unique to lilypond, I think, so people will stumble over it for a long time to come. Because it is unfamiliar behaviour, people will not be reading manuals looking for unusual behaviour.

Andrew

On 21 December 2017 at 19:36, Phil Holmes <address@hidden> wrote:

----- Original Message ----- From: "James Harkins" <address@hidden>
To: "Andrew Bernard" <address@hidden>; "lilypond-user" <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2017 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: Required font for simplified Chinese characters?

---- On Sat, 09 Dec 2017 14:23:46 +0800 Andrew Bernard wrote ----

With the release of stable version 2.20 coming out in the forseeable future, and with 2.19.80 being really stable and excellent, could you considering moving up? No crash occurs at 2.19.80, and there are dozens of really good new features in this series, well worth having.

Sorry to come back very late to this thread.

I just tried 2.19.80, and this version *can* render simplified Chinese characters. Yes!

BUT... in 2.19, the handling of landscape orientation has changed.

In my v2.18.2 document, I used:

#(set-default-paper-size "a4" 'landscape)

... and I got a document that was wider than it is tall, and I could read the notation on screen directly. That's what I wanted.

In 2.19.80, without changing the code, I got a document whose paper is in portrait orientation, and whose notation was rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise. Staff lines read *upward* (???!) on the screen. Which... for reading is... shall we say, difficult.

#(set-default-paper-size "a4landscape") gives me the layout I wanted.

I'm not sure if this is intentional. The manual says "If the symbol 'landscape is added to the paper size function, pages will be rotated by 90 degrees, and wider line widths will be set accordingly." I am seeing that the page *contents* were rotated by 90 degrees and line widths were set accordingly, but the page dimensions did not rotate. So it isn't accurate to say that the **pages** will be rotated.

Try it yourself:

\version "2.19.80"
#(set-default-paper-size "a4" 'landscape)
\relative c' { c4 d e f g a b c }

Is it a bug, or out-of-date documentation?

I'm fairly sure nobody wants the behavior that is currently documented as the first option.

hjh

See http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/PDF-landscape-issue-td204230.html


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Phil Holmes

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