Re: Alternate Measures

2023-03-18 Thread Greg Lindstrom
Kieren, My Original Question: >> Is there a way I can set something at the top of the file where I can >> specify which version of the measure(s) I want engraved? Kieren's Response: >Look for \tag, and you'll find exactly what you want! My reaction: Bingo, Bango, Bongo!! This is EXACTLY what

oddHeaderMarkup

2023-03-18 Thread Dimitri Sykias
Lilypond v. “2.24.1”. I use “oddHeaderMarkup” and “evenHeaderMarkup”. I want to change the font size of header, but “\fontsize #-1.0” does nothing. How can I achieve this? Thanks! oddHeaderMarkup = \markup \fill-line { " " \on-the-fly #part-not-first-page \fontsize #-1.0

Re: Benefits of Cairo backend over Ghostscript for PDF

2023-03-18 Thread Andrew Bernard
Well as I said, I don't know. I thought America would be way ahead. On 18/03/2023 11:44 pm, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Hi Werner, With NBN in Australia, the speeds are amazing. [...] Well, a great percentage of the world does not have such amazing circumstances... Werner

Re: Benefits of Cairo backend over Ghostscript for PDF

2023-03-18 Thread Andrew Bernard
It's kinda sorta on by default in Frescobaldi. engrave -preview is Ctrl-M and engrave - publish -Ctrl-Shift-P. And the engrave icon, when you press it, without going through the dropdowns, is preview by default. |-dembed-source-code| is off by default.

coloring edits

2023-03-18 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
Hello, The documentation has examples of coloring note heads, stems, and staves. Where would I look for instructions to color slurs and/or ties? Thank you. Mark

Re: coloring edits

2023-03-18 Thread William Rehwinkel
Dear Mark, Once you know how to apply colors to things like noteheads, applying that to the rest of the symbols is not difficult. It's just a matter of knowing the internal name (such as Slur, Tie, etc.). These can be found by looking up the symbols in the internals reference. For example,

Re: Benefits of Cairo backend over Ghostscript for PDF

2023-03-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Here's some other compression solutions. This page points out that > the tradeoff for squishing is lower quality images and text. Link missing? > In this day of gigabyte this an terabyte that, does a large PDF > matter very much? IMHO yes. Today, PDF files are loaded *and* displayed in a

Re: Benefits of Cairo backend over Ghostscript for PDF

2023-03-18 Thread Paul Hodges
From: Andrew Bernard In this day of gigabyte this an terabyte that, does a large PDF matter very much? What is the issue of concern? Unnecessary waste of resources is always a poor idea, especially if it is unexplained. My concern is more wondering that if the ordinary PDF is of the

Re: Benefits of Cairo backend over Ghostscript for PDF

2023-03-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Hi Werner, With NBN in Australia, the speeds are amazing. [...] Well, a great percentage of the world does not have such amazing circumstances... Werner

Re: Benefits of Cairo backend over Ghostscript for PDF

2023-03-18 Thread Andrew Bernard
https://www.wikihow.com/Reduce-PDF-File-Size Was compressed to zero bytes. :-) On 18/03/2023 5:58 pm, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Link missing?

Re: Benefits of Cairo backend over Ghostscript for PDF

2023-03-18 Thread Volodymyr Prokopyuk
Good morning Jean and Werner, The alpha transparency and fonts embedded in SVG along with leaner code are important advantages of Cairo. Thank you for outlining this! I'll investigate ways to reduce PDF size and let you know the outcomes of my investigation. Thank you, Vlad On Sat, Mar 18,

Re: Benefits of Cairo backend over Ghostscript for PDF

2023-03-18 Thread Andrew Bernard
I don't have any quantitative data but I image turning off the embedding of the source code would reduce file size in the PDF which may help. Andrew On 18/03/2023 10:38 pm, Volodymyr Prokopyuk wrote: I've tried the https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu with very good results:

Re: Benefits of Cairo backend over Ghostscript for PDF

2023-03-18 Thread kieren
Hi Andrew, In this day of gigabyte this an terabyte that, does a large PDF matter very much? What is the issue of concern? 1. For transferring/emailing, smaller is better for a number of reasons. 2. For those of us (e.g., Music Directors) who store and use multiple PDFs of complete musicals

Re: Benefits of Cairo backend over Ghostscript for PDF

2023-03-18 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le samedi 18 mars 2023 à 23:19 +1100, Andrew Bernard a écrit : > I don't have any quantitative data but I image turning off the embedding > of the source code would reduce file size in the PDF which may help. `-dembed-source-code` is off by default. signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: Benefits of Cairo backend over Ghostscript for PDF

2023-03-18 Thread Volodymyr Prokopyuk
Hello, I've tried the https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu with very good results: - Lilypond with Ghostscript x1.5 => 5.3 MB PDF v1.5 - Lilypond with Cairo x4 => 15.0 MB PDF v1.5 - Lilypond with Cairo + pdfcpu x1 => 3.6 MB PDF v1.7 PDF outlines, hyperlinks and overall document appearance

Re: Benefits of Cairo backend over Ghostscript for PDF

2023-03-18 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Werner, With NBN in Australia, the speeds are amazing. I have a 'modest' plan at 100Mbps nominal but I get consistently 10 percent plus higher. And a _lot_ of people are now moving to the commonly available 1000Mbs plans, at quite reasonable cost. So for we Aussies down under, big PDF's

Re: Benefits of Cairo backend over Ghostscript for PDF

2023-03-18 Thread David Kastrup
Paul Hodges writes: > From: Andrew Bernard > > In this day of gigabyte this an terabyte that, does a large PDF matter > very much? What is the issue of concern? > > Unnecessary waste of resources is always a poor idea, especially if it > is unexplained. > > > > My concern is more wondering

Re: Benefits of Cairo backend over Ghostscript for PDF

2023-03-18 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Le 18 mars 2023 à 16:58, David Kastrup a écrit : > > Different mostly redundant font subsets for thousands of images add up. That is the problem that appears for LilyPond’s documentation PDFs, which embed lots of examples. We are talking about standalone scores here, not documentation.

Re: autoChange creating extra staff

2023-03-18 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le vendredi 17 mars 2023 à 17:06 -0700, Alexandre Loomis a écrit : > That works perfectly, thanks! Follow up question, is there a way to change > the cross-over point during the music, or do I need to do something like > \CrossStaff = { >     \autoChange c' { *music* } >     \autoChange f'

Alternate Measures

2023-03-18 Thread Greg Lindstrom
Hello, I am reworking the bass (tuba) parts for my section in the Natural State Brass Band. For those of you not familiar with the British-style Brass band, ALL members of the band are expected to have exceptional technique. The piece I'm reworking has 32nd note runs (1/4 = 90) which members of

Re: Alternate Measures

2023-03-18 Thread kieren
Hi Greg, Is there a way I can set something at the top of the file where I can specify which version of the measure(s) I want engraved? Look for \tag, and you'll find exactly what you want! Hope that helps, Kieren.