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

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