[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> On Tuesday, 13 October 1998, Adrian Mariano writes:
>
> > > > Also, the default margins for 20pt look like they must be very tiny
> > > > for A4 paper. (They look pretty good on USA letter size which is 7mm
> > > > wider.)
> > >
> > > Yup. This is to reflect normal shete music (which is larger than A4)
> >
> > Hmmm. It might then be desirable not to lie and have "a4.ly" loaded.
> > Is normal sheet music printed on a standard size of paper? Or is a
> > size used that predates the A, B, and C sizes?
>
> This hasn't really been thought-through, i just keyed some stuff in.
> However, we do have a bit of a dilemma here. I thought that 'normal'
> sheet music was supposed to be B4, but i never see quite that height,
> rather something like 250x340mm, or 712x967pt...
>
> Musicians really like (well i do) to have that B4ish size but the
> problem is that B4 printers are not so common. However, the actually
Not true: my mom's LJ 5 can easily print sheet music. The paper
itself is uncommon (at least here in Europe.)
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