Multi-Column layout! I need that too. This is how I did this score (3 Columns)- http://www.twitpic.com/2pie84
1. Calculate the width (and height?) of each column; set the page size accordingly. (page width = column width) 2. Run LilyPond, output the score as PNGs. 3. Tailor PNGs. ImageMagick comes handy for this. Problems: 1. It's ugly job. 2. Not satisfied by the PNG's resolution. Score doesn't look sharp enough. Workaround: render to bigger sized PNGs from lily. 3. Page numbers, irrelevant and put in arbitrary columns. Again, is there a more appropriate way to setup multi-column scores? On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 6:05 AM, PMA <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi List. > > I have a LilyPond score printing to 11X17 paper in landscape mode. > Most of the result -- with staves stretching fully across the page of > course -- is looking okay. > > But one movement isn't. It's measures, nearly a half-page wide, > would to my eye be most readable if they were arranged in two > columns (to be read bar-to-bar *downwards* rather than across) > with the columns separated by ca an inch of empty space and a > top-to-bottom-of-page vertical line in the middle. > > Before pursuing ugly attempts to fool LilyPond into "allowing" this, > I may as well ask -- Is there a straightforward way? Can you tell > LilyPond: "The physical paper is 11x17, but just pretend that the > "pages" you're printing are 11x8, and then print them two at a > time side-by-side with this space & big vertical line in between"? > > (Or had I better just force an inch of empty mid-page staff, make > that staff portion transparent, force whatever clef to print after it, > and then later -- via a PDF editor -- cram in the vertical divider?) > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions! > > Pete > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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