I would like to create a very wide page also. What is the maximum length of a line?
Thanks, Chris -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joseph Haig Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 4:27 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Custom paper size Marek, Jan-Peter, Thanks for the quick responses. I should have enough to work on now. Regards, Joe On 6 February 2012 11:19, Jan-Peter Voigt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Joe, > > I sometimes use this: > --snip-- > #(set! paper-alist (cons '("wide" . (cons (* 15 cm) (* 3 cm))) > paper-alist)) \paper { > #(set-paper-size "wide") > } > > \score { > \relative c'' { > bes4 a c b > } > } > --snip-- > > this creates a paper "wide" of width 15cm and height 3cm. > This format is joined to the global paper-alist and can then get > called in a paper block. > > HTH > Cheers, Jan-Peter > > > On 06.02.2012 12:03, Joseph Haig wrote: >> >> Is it possible to set a custom paper size by specifying dimensions? >> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Paper-size >> seems to suggest that the only way is to manually edit the paper.scm >> file. >> >> What I want to do is have a very wide page so that an entire piece >> can fit on a single stave. The reason for this is to produce a video >> to go along with the music that shows a single stave scrolling left >> and this seems to be the best way to do it. I would be grateful to >> hear if anyone has done this sort of thing before or knows of a better way. >> >> Regards, >> >> Joe >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >> > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
