papersize

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.1/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Page-layout.html#Page%20layout
> 
> says to set the page layout with
>             #(set-paper-size "letter")
> 
> This is just ignored by Lylipond 2.1.30
> 
> However, the old way (as described in the doc for 2.0)
> papersize = "letter" 
> works fine.

This is a bug in the documentation.  You should use #(set-paper-size
"letter") outside of \paper { }, i.e.


  \header { .. }
  #(set-paper-size "letter")
  \score {
     ..

  }

I have fixed this in cvs.


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