On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 07:02:07PM +0100, pls wrote: > Hey all, > > I just discovered a command line option that is not mentioned in the docs: > It's possible to append "landscape" to a paper size, e.g. > > $ lilypond -dpaper-size=\"a6landscape\" inputfile.ly > > There are a few error messages and lots of warnings but basically it seems to > work. > > Parsing... > programming error: Cannot find key `"a6landscape"' in alist, setting to `#f'. > continuing, cross fingers > programming error: cannot evaluate "#f" in module "#<module b61fc630>", > setting to "(148.0 . 105.0)" > continuing, cross fingers > ? > Drawing systems... > warning: cannot fit music on page: overflow is 35.344199 > warning: compressing music to fit > ? > > I tested the command with different large scores with many > staves/instruments. With the landscape-option larger scores collide with the > title and the copyright tag, staves collide and are compressed too much. > Without the landscape-option the automatic scaling always seems to work. Same > result when I include either > > #(set-default-paper-size "a6" 'landscape) > or > > #(set-default-paper-size "a6landscape") > in the .ly file. Automatic scaling does not seem to have an effect on the > staff size?! Is this a "landscape-bug"? > > hth > patrick
Thanks for the bug report, Patrick. Looks like that must have been pretty painful. I have created a tracker for the issue here: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3023 Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Hall _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
