Re: Create different pdf layers

2013-08-14 Thread Marek Klein
Hello, 2013/8/1 Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org I have brought this up before without success. But as my interest reappeared I'll try it again with a slightly more specific question. there is an existing issue based on your request: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2542 Do

Create different pdf layers

2013-08-01 Thread Urs Liska
I have brought this up before without success. But as my interest reappeared I'll try it again with a slightly more specific question. When LilyPond finally renders its objects 'on paper' how complicated would it be to allow it to print on layers that show up as separate layers in the final

Re: Create different pdf layers

2013-08-01 Thread Mike Solomon
On 1 août 2013, at 11:15, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: I have brought this up before without success. But as my interest reappeared I'll try it again with a slightly more specific question. When LilyPond finally renders its objects 'on paper' how complicated would it be to allow

Re: Create different pdf layers

2013-08-01 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Urs, isn't the layer grob property what you want? This is what I use to interrupt ties (or slurs) if they collide with a time signature: % to have the time sig behind the staff symbol \override Staff.TimeSignature #'layer = #-5 % whiteout anything behind the time sig \override

Re: Create different pdf layers

2013-08-01 Thread David Kastrup
Mike Solomon m...@mikesolomon.org writes: As far as I know, the PS standard doesn't support any native form of layering, and LilyPond pre-renders to PS before PDF. But it converts the PostScript to PDF using Ghostscript, and Ghostscript will both read and write PDF and PostScript, so it is

Re: Create different pdf layers

2013-08-01 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2013-08-01 um 15:25 schrieb David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Mike Solomon m...@mikesolomon.org writes: As far as I know, the PS standard doesn't support any native form of layering, and LilyPond pre-renders to PS before PDF. But it converts the PostScript to PDF using Ghostscript, and

Re: Create different pdf layers

2013-08-01 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Am 01.08.2013 11:07, schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: isn't the layer grob property what you want? no, it isn't ... but if one comes up with the right pdfmark ps command, there has to be a check of this layer property to avoid inconsistent lily- and pdf-layers. Best, Jan-Peter

Re: Create different pdf layers

2013-08-01 Thread Urs Liska
Jan-Peter Voigt jp.vo...@gmx.de schrieb: Am 01.08.2013 11:07, schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: isn't the layer grob property what you want? no, it isn't ... but if one comes up with the right pdfmark ps command, there has to be a check of this layer property to avoid inconsistent lily- and

Re: Create different pdf layers

2013-08-01 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Am 01.08.2013 15:01, schrieb Urs Liska: I could imagine declaring a specific lilypond layer as a pdf layer at the top of the file and later look for elements of this layer. That way I would be responsible myself and by default there wouldn't be any matching inconcistencies. Something like