Hi Sven,
Thanks for asking about what I am trying to do. Perhaps I
could explain this a bit differently. Let me know if this
is not clear and I will try again. You asked about why
\pageBreak doesn't do what I want. \pageBreak splits a
tune across a sheet dividing a top from a bottom. You get
whole lines when you do this. What I want to do is split
a tune into a left side and a right side.
Consider that if you open a book, there are two pages
facing each other, usually an even numbered page on the
left and an odd numbered page on the right. Imagine a
sheet of music printed in landscape orientation on a piece
of paper that is the same size as the two facing pages in
a book. When you fold this sheet of music down the
middle, you would have the first bars of each line on the
left facing page and the last bars of each line on the
right facing page. Now add the print margins to the
middle for binding etc. So if you did this in a book, the
tune takes two facing pages in the book for each "page" of
the tune. The idea could be thought of as using two
letter pages to create an equivalent of a "C" sized US
sheet, or similarly, two A4 sheets into an equivalent A2
sheet.
What I am wanting to do is to print the tune on paper in a
size readable when standing back from the music stand by
splitting a tune across two sheets of paper that become
facing pages in a book. I'd like to do this without
splitting the notes into a left and right score in a ly
file if possible.
Thanks in advance,
Ben
On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 14:31:47 +0200
Sven Axelsson <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm afraid I don't understand the distinction you make
between page and
sheet. Apparently \pageBreak doesn't do what you want,
so please clarify
how what you want differs.
On 17 October 2013 06:12, Ben Beeson
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
I use LilyPond for bagpipe music. I find LilyPond and
the included
bagpipe.ly file to work very well for that task.
Thanks!
I looked in the documents and in other places online for
help and did
not find anything on how to split a score across two
sheets, so Iam
hoping the list can provide some insight. What I am
looking to do is to
easily split a score across two sheets much like you can
make a score
use two pages instead of one with a \pageBreak at the
appropriate place.
For example, the tune Cabar Feidh is much easier to read
from a single
sheet if printed landscape as opposed to printing
portrait. This is just
because some of the bars are "more busy" with doublings
and throws etc.
than others making certain parts a bit crowded when
printing this tune
in portrait orientation. I realize I could create two
separate scores,
one for each sheet, but that becomes cumbersome if you
ever decide to
display the tune differently.
So I was wondering if there was an easy way to split a
score across two
sheets when printing so the tune essentially puts the
first two bars on
the left sheet and the last two bars of each line on the
right sheet of
an open book?
Thanks in advance,
Ben
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