Hello, I am somewhat at a loss. I want to generate an Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file from an ly source. I therefore turn to the manual (v 2.8), Section "Running LilyPond", --> 12.1 Invoking lilypond --> 12.1.1 Command line options.
And there I find that I can put --backend=eps, --ps so that I try: lilypond --backend=eps --ps myfile.ly This, indeed, generates myfile.eps (in fact I have myfile.eps and myfile-1.eps), but both these files are invalid (ghostview gives me an error message). I can go the long way: lilypond myfile.ly This gives me myfile.pdf, which I can transform into eps with: pdftops -eps myfile.pdf myfile.eps The I acn use epstool to get the boundingbox correct, but this is rather tedious and, moreover, lilypond (or the postprocessor) seems to enter blank spaces at the bottom and the top of the page, so that my two staves (wrongly) seem to cover the whole page. In fact if, with the editor, I eliminate by hand the spaces (something like ( ) show in the PostScript) I get the correct bounding box. Therefore, what is the correct and direct way of generating EPS from a lilypond source. Thanks for your help. m -- Dr. Michel Goossens Scientific Text Processing CERN/IT Department | [EMAIL PROTECTED] CH-1211 Geneva 23 | +41 (22) 767 9466 (tel) Switzerland | +41 (22) 766 9960 (fax) _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
