Re: Page frames/watermarks
On 19/04/17 15:06, David Wright wrote: On Wed 19 Apr 2017 at 09:29:19 (+0100), Richard Shann wrote: On Wed, 2017-04-19 at 09:53 +0200, Psalle wrote: On 18/04/17 20:11, David Wright wrote: On Tue 18 Apr 2017 at 19:56:08 (+0200), Psalle wrote: Hello all, I was wondering how to add a decorative frame to a score within lilypond, which led me to search too for absolute-positioned images in the way of a watermark, but found nothing relevant. I'm aware of \epsfile but in my experience it works inline. Is there some advanced trickery to achieve this? Thanks in advance for any pointers. Thread starting at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-04/msg00135.html Thanks! So it seems there's no easy in-lilypond way to do such absolute positioning of things... I could try the latex route suggested therein. The conclusion that worked for the OP was to use postscript directly in the LilyPond file, surrounding the code with gsave ... grestore I don't know how this relates to latex. It doesn't. The "LaTeX" solution was part of an alternative method, one which has different advantages. Which one is more attractive to _this_ OP depends on whether "within" is a binding condition. In my case I'm proficient in latex and know almost nothing of low level postscript... so that's why I arrived at that conclusion. Thanks for the clarifications. LaTeX was a non-essential part of the method anyway, but might have stuck in the mind of this OP because of the previous OP writing http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-04/msg00148.html The method was really about tools such as pdfjam and pdftk. And the thrust of my contributions was to (1) dissuade the OP from doing the task interactively and (2) encourage the OP to question their colleague about why they were "needing" lines/boxes/frames at all. Cheers, David. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Page frames/watermarks
On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 09:53:39 +0200, Psalle wrote: > >> I was wondering how to add a decorative frame to a score within > >> lilypond, > > Thread starting at > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-04/msg00135.html > Thanks! So it seems there's no easy in-lilypond way to do such absolute > positioning of things... I could try the latex route suggested therein. I find it often much easier to just produce a PDF and use some PDF tools to add watermarks/decorations. -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Page frames/watermarks
On Wed 19 Apr 2017 at 09:29:19 (+0100), Richard Shann wrote: > On Wed, 2017-04-19 at 09:53 +0200, Psalle wrote: > > On 18/04/17 20:11, David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 18 Apr 2017 at 19:56:08 (+0200), Psalle wrote: > > >> Hello all, > > >> > > >> I was wondering how to add a decorative frame to a score within > > >> lilypond, which led me to search too for absolute-positioned images > > >> in the way of a watermark, but found nothing relevant. I'm aware of > > >> \epsfile but in my experience it works inline. > > >> > > >> Is there some advanced trickery to achieve this? Thanks in advance > > >> for any pointers. > > > Thread starting at > > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-04/msg00135.html > > Thanks! So it seems there's no easy in-lilypond way to do such absolute > > positioning of things... I could try the latex route suggested therein. > > The conclusion that worked for the OP was to use postscript directly in > the LilyPond file, surrounding the code with gsave ... grestore > > I don't know how this relates to latex. It doesn't. The "LaTeX" solution was part of an alternative method, one which has different advantages. Which one is more attractive to _this_ OP depends on whether "within" is a binding condition. LaTeX was a non-essential part of the method anyway, but might have stuck in the mind of this OP because of the previous OP writing http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-04/msg00148.html The method was really about tools such as pdfjam and pdftk. And the thrust of my contributions was to (1) dissuade the OP from doing the task interactively and (2) encourage the OP to question their colleague about why they were "needing" lines/boxes/frames at all. Cheers, David. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Page frames/watermarks
On Wed, 2017-04-19 at 09:53 +0200, Psalle wrote: > On 18/04/17 20:11, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 18 Apr 2017 at 19:56:08 (+0200), Psalle wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> I was wondering how to add a decorative frame to a score within > >> lilypond, which led me to search too for absolute-positioned images > >> in the way of a watermark, but found nothing relevant. I'm aware of > >> \epsfile but in my experience it works inline. > >> > >> Is there some advanced trickery to achieve this? Thanks in advance > >> for any pointers. > > Thread starting at > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-04/msg00135.html > Thanks! So it seems there's no easy in-lilypond way to do such absolute > positioning of things... I could try the latex route suggested therein. The conclusion that worked for the OP was to use postscript directly in the LilyPond file, surrounding the code with gsave ... grestore I don't know how this relates to latex. Richard ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Page frames/watermarks
On 18/04/17 20:11, David Wright wrote: On Tue 18 Apr 2017 at 19:56:08 (+0200), Psalle wrote: Hello all, I was wondering how to add a decorative frame to a score within lilypond, which led me to search too for absolute-positioned images in the way of a watermark, but found nothing relevant. I'm aware of \epsfile but in my experience it works inline. Is there some advanced trickery to achieve this? Thanks in advance for any pointers. Thread starting at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-04/msg00135.html Thanks! So it seems there's no easy in-lilypond way to do such absolute positioning of things... I could try the latex route suggested therein. Cheers, Pat. Cheers, David. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: Page frames/watermarks
On Tue 18 Apr 2017 at 19:56:08 (+0200), Psalle wrote: > Hello all, > > I was wondering how to add a decorative frame to a score within > lilypond, which led me to search too for absolute-positioned images > in the way of a watermark, but found nothing relevant. I'm aware of > \epsfile but in my experience it works inline. > > Is there some advanced trickery to achieve this? Thanks in advance > for any pointers. Thread starting at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-04/msg00135.html Cheers, David. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
