Music fragments with Lilypond?
Hi, I've been playing with Lilypond since about yesterday so I'm pretty new. I need a few figures for my thesis and the pdf output of lilypond on mac os x is pretty nifty. Except I can't coax it into just giving me a pdf of the music itself. I always get empty space as if it were trying to fill the page. Is there any way to tell Lilypond to generate just the music fragment and nothing else? My current work around is to use lilypond-book on a test tex file. Once it generates the eps files, I manually turn them into pdf to include in my thesis. I was hoping for a better way. -- Edwin Vane MMath Candidate Computer Graphics Lab School of Computer Science University of Waterloo ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Music fragments with Lilypond?
Why not writing your complete thesis in Tex ? I used LyX as an editor and that worked as a dream... greets Maurits On 28-okt-05, at 17:50, Edwin Vane wrote: Hi, I've been playing with Lilypond since about yesterday so I'm pretty new. I need a few figures for my thesis and the pdf output of lilypond on mac os x is pretty nifty. Except I can't coax it into just giving me a pdf of the music itself. I always get empty space as if it were trying to fill the page. Is there any way to tell Lilypond to generate just the music fragment and nothing else? My current work around is to use lilypond-book on a test tex file. Once it generates the eps files, I manually turn them into pdf to include in my thesis. I was hoping for a better way. -- Edwin Vane MMath Candidate Computer Graphics Lab School of Computer Science University of Waterloo ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Music fragments with Lilypond?
I'm not sure this exists for mac as well, but on linux you could use
pdfcrop to cut the white areas away. I think there must be a source of
that program somewhere (it's command line based, pretty simple, but
pretty effective). Be sure you include
\header{
copyright =
tagline = }
in your file since otherwise pdfcrop will keep the space between the
music fragment and the bottom line.
Best regards,
John
P.S. There could be some spacing problems. I posted on that some days
ago, but unfortunately didn't get a reply...
Edwin Vane wrote:
Hi,
I've been playing with Lilypond since about yesterday so I'm pretty new.
I need a few figures for my thesis and the pdf output of lilypond on mac
os x is pretty nifty. Except I can't coax it into just giving me a pdf
of the music itself. I always get empty space as if it were trying to
fill the page. Is there any way to tell Lilypond to generate just the
music fragment and nothing else?
My current work around is to use lilypond-book on a test tex file. Once
it generates the eps files, I manually turn them into pdf to include in
my thesis. I was hoping for a better way.
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Re: Music fragments with Lilypond?
Of course, with Preview on Mac OSX one can crop pdf.
(Moreover, Preview is scriptable, but I've never used apple script)
-a-
On 28 Oct 2005, at 22:30, John Wiedenhoeft wrote:
I'm not sure this exists for mac as well, but on linux you could use
pdfcrop to cut the white areas away. I think there must be a source of
that program somewhere (it's command line based, pretty simple, but
pretty effective). Be sure you include
\header{
copyright =
tagline = }
in your file since otherwise pdfcrop will keep the space between the
music fragment and the bottom line.
Best regards,
John
P.S. There could be some spacing problems. I posted on that some days
ago, but unfortunately didn't get a reply...
Edwin Vane wrote:
Hi,
I've been playing with Lilypond since about yesterday so I'm pretty
new.
I need a few figures for my thesis and the pdf output of lilypond on
mac
os x is pretty nifty. Except I can't coax it into just giving me a pdf
of the music itself. I always get empty space as if it were trying to
fill the page. Is there any way to tell Lilypond to generate just the
music fragment and nothing else?
My current work around is to use lilypond-book on a test tex file.
Once
it generates the eps files, I manually turn them into pdf to include
in
my thesis. I was hoping for a better way.
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Andrea Valle
DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione
Università degli Studi di Torino
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