Re: Printing music compactly

2010-05-17 Thread Francisco Vila
2010/5/16 David Sumbler da...@aeolia.co.uk: So, can anybody give me a quick hack to get music which is proportioned normally (as regards the ratios between staves, note-heads, text etc. etc.), and which has little or no wasted space between staves?  The default vertical spacings in Lilypond do

Printing music compactly

2010-05-16 Thread David Sumbler
I need to get the whole of a piece (originally 5 pages) onto 1 or 2 sheets of A4. It doesn't matter how small the print is - at the same time, I don't want to waste space. I have got a usable result, but it isn't quite what I was hoping for: ny .ly file produces 4 pages, so by printing from

Re: Printing music compactly

2010-05-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, I need to get the whole of a piece (originally 5 pages) onto 1 or 2 sheets of A4. It doesn't matter how small the print is - at the same time, I don't want to waste space. Have you tried \paper { page-count = 2 } ? Hope this helps! Kieren.

Re: Printing music compactly

2010-05-16 Thread Nick Payne
Why not just change the page size to something larger than A4 in the paper section (don't change anything else) and then just use the reducing capabilities of the printer driver to shrink the output to A4. I have one score that occupies 17 pages when the ly file is set to output to A4. I