Hello Urs and others, ------------------------- Wednesday, September 12, 2018, 7:05:56 AM, Urs Liska wrote:
> Hi Aaron, > I fully agree with Simon's description but want > to add one more question > to it: > Am 12.09.2018 um 02:06 schrieb Simon Albrecht: >> On 11.09.2018 16:32, Aaron Hill wrote: >>> On 2018-09-11 3:03 am, Simon Albrecht wrote: >>>> this is a suggestion by Urs from a user list thread on 2018-08-30: for >>>> putting together scores of four-hand music with the typical primo >>>> right page, secondo left page layout it would be useful to select >>>> through a paper variable whether the music of a \book be typeset on >>>> only odd or only even pages, with according page numbers and margins >>>> (in case of twosided = ##t). >>> Just to clarify, is this request strictly about page numbering and >>> margins (something I believe LilyPond already supports albeit via >>> manual* configuration), > One side is overlooking something here. Those of us who sponsor the > feature request are thinking that there > currently is _no_ viable > solution to produce the intended outcome of two scores that can be > zipped to a primo/secondo volume. > As a workaround the issue that LilyPond doesn't provide proper support > for this kind of score the idea is to > * define (page) breaks in an external file > * create one score for the "prima" part with > *even* page numbers only > and the margins set for *left* pages > * create another score for the "seconda" part with *odd* page numbers > * apply the same break set to both files to > have synchronized (page) > breaks. > * externally zip the PDFs together > Do you know of a way to create a score with a > page numbering of 2, 4, 6 > etc. ? > If there's a *reasonable* solution to that we > could figure out a way of > achieving the whole workflow without changing > LilyPond, either as some > external scripted solution or from within a Scheme library. This link http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-05/msg00149.html seems to do what you want for page numbering, although it puts the page numbers in the centre of the page rather than the left & right corners and doesn't adjust margins. Thanks to "Hwaen Ch'uqi" <hwaench...@gmail.com> for this. > Urs > _______________________________________________ > bug-lilypond mailing list > bug-lilypond@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond