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Re: automatic scaling to landscape paper size leads to collisions


From: Colin Hall
Subject: Re: automatic scaling to landscape paper size leads to collisions
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:48:12 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 07:02:07PM +0100, pls wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I just discovered a command line option that is not mentioned in the docs: 
> It's possible to append "landscape" to a paper size, e.g.
> 
> $ lilypond -dpaper-size=\"a6landscape\" inputfile.ly
> 
> There are a few error messages and lots of warnings but basically it seems to 
> work.
> 
> Parsing...
> programming error: Cannot find key `"a6landscape"' in alist, setting to `#f'.
> continuing, cross fingers
> programming error: cannot evaluate "#f" in module "#<module b61fc630>", 
> setting to "(148.0 . 105.0)"
> continuing, cross fingers
> ?
> Drawing systems...
> warning: cannot fit music on page: overflow is 35.344199
> warning: compressing music to fit
> ?
> 
> I tested the command with different large scores with many 
> staves/instruments. With the landscape-option larger scores collide with the 
> title and the copyright tag, staves collide and are compressed too much. 
> Without the landscape-option the automatic scaling always seems to work. Same 
> result when I include either
> 
> #(set-default-paper-size "a6" 'landscape)
> or
> 
> #(set-default-paper-size "a6landscape")
> in the .ly file. Automatic scaling does not seem to have an effect on the 
> staff size?! Is this a "landscape-bug"?
> 
> hth
> patrick

Thanks for the bug report, Patrick. Looks like that must have been
pretty painful.

I have created a tracker for the issue here:

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3023

Cheers,
Colin.

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Colin Hall



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