Re: Landscape with set-paper-size (was: Landscape cancels linewidth)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> on 2004-09-16 at 01:00 +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > I think it should be
> > 
> > #(set-default-paper-size "a4" 'landscape)
> > \bookpaper {
> >        linewidth = ..
> > }
> 
> That works. Thanks!
> 
> Actually that's quite clearly what it says in the documentation.[1]
> 
> It says also: "If the symbol landscape is supplied as argument to set-
> default-paper-size, the pages will be rotated 90 degrees, and line
> widths will be set longer correspondingly."
> 
> Does this mean that 'landscape does NOT work with set-paper-size but
> only with set-default-paper-size? In other words, is it not possible to
> achieve the same by using 
>   
>   #(set-paper-size "a4" 'landscape)
> 
> in the \paper section? I tried it and tried placing the section both

The page size settings must be supplied in the \bookpaper
block, so you could try \bookpaper { #(set-paper-size "a4" 'landscape) }

We should probably rename the \paper {} block. Any ideas? Eg.
\layout ?

\book {
  \score  {
    ..music..
    \layout {  .. }
  }
  \bookpaper {
    ..
  }
}

> inside and outside the \score section, but I always got a portrait page.
> If so, maybe that could be stressed in the "7.5.10 Paper size" part of
> the documentation[1]?
> 
> [1] 
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.3/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Paper-size.html
> 

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