Hi, Thanks, that all seems fine. I think the vast majority of what I want to do to make life easier is to set some appropriately "nice" fonts globally and make up some shortcuts for my favourite markups.
I will have a fiddle and see what pops up. It would seem to me that if people have a favourite format for marking up their Lilypond, it would assist newcomers to Lilypond to have a "gallery" of styles from which one could start from, similar to the templates, all adjusted up with fonts and stuff to look nice and presentable. I know we have the mutopia stuff which is a nice place to go to, to get this sort of stuff. The defaults for Lilypond look alright, but to get anything presentable, you need to mess about with fonts and things. What I'll do is have a look at some professionally printed music and see if I can emulate some of them in general look and font presentation and generate something like a plug-in that others could use. >From what I am used to playing off (brass band music), there seems to be a definate divide between "modern" markups, with san serif fonts, and "old" markups which use serif fonts. Surely, it is also true that in the Jazz and Orchestral worlds, music "looks" different and has a number of different conventions in terms of general look and feel, and it would be nice to pull this all together to assist newbies in getting off the ground so-to-speak. Cheers, Ralph -----Original Message----- From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 September 2003 13:18 To: Thorkil Wolvendans Cc: Ralph Little; Lilypond Mailinglist Subject: Re: Style sheets In contrast to the "common.ly" file sent by Nicolas earlier today, Thorkil's file is a template, similar to all the template files that are included in the LilyPond distribution in .../doc/input/templates/. If I were you, I would put definitions like "Dynamics" context in a separate common.ly file, since these things are more likely to have to be updated when new versions of LilyPond appear and in that case, you don't want to update every single input file. > ... > \include "paper16.ly" > \paper { papersize = "a4" } If you really want to change the paper size, you have to include "paper16.ly" or some other of the "paperNN.ly" files AFTER you have set the papersize variables, otherwise it won't have any effect, see the reference manual. In this case it doesn't really matter, since a4 already is the default but if you want letter size, for example, you have to switch the two lines. Mats ---------- Our communications with you matter to us. This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and are sent on the basis of our copyright, e-mail and security policy which can be inspected by visiting http://www.tribaldata.co.uk/contact_index.asp. and clicking on the print friendly link. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete this message. Thank you. ---------- _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
