On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:17:21 -0700 Patrick Horgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Neil Puttock wrote: > > ...some stuff elided... > > This is rather nifty, but you're reinventing the wheel. :) Well, IMO the main point is setting the margins automatically -- and simply the idea that this would be useful to have better quality music for both paper sizes at once. I could imagine that this could be very useful for mutopia and similar projects. I often used to see scores that looked great in a4 but contained a final page with two lines of score in letter, or vice versa. (I haven't looked at mutopia in the past few years, but I'd be surprised if such problems were resolved) > > Why not use the built-in option instead, i.e., run with > > -dpaper-size="letter"? > because he wanted to be able to switch back and forth via command > line argument without editing the file. No; Neil is quite correct. -dpaper-size=\"letter\" is also a command-line option; I'd forgotten about it. "-d letter" is easy to type, but this kind of thing is generally hidden in a makefile anyway, so that's hardly a good argument. Besides, -dpaper-size=\"letter\" *is* a built-in option, so lilypond won't display a warning message. The next version of this file will use this method. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
