Re: papersize

[David Petrou]

> > > I'm trying to get lily to produce letter size pages, and I've tried
> > > running:
> > >
> > > ly2dvi --set=papersize="letter" file.ly
> > >
> > > and it still seems to produce A4, although there are no error
> > > messages.  Am I doing it wrong, or is it a bug in 1.3.145?
>
> Please note that this command should produce a dvi file
> with the page layout suited for letter size papers.
> You still have to tell dvips explicitly that you want
> a non-default paper size by 'dvips -t letter' (another
> possibility is to let ly2dvi call dvips: 'ly2dvi -P --set=...'.

Hi guys.  I need to output to letter-sized paper, and I normally use
"dvips -t letter".

When I run ly2dvi with the -P option and --set=papersize="letter", the
postscript is generated correctly:

  %DVIPSCommandLine: dvips -t letter -o ly2dvi.out.ps ly2dvi.out.dvi

However, if I just have `papersize = "letter"' at the top of my file,
running "ly2dvi -P" generated postscript using the following dvips
command:

  %DVIPSCommandLine: dvips -o ly2dvi.out.ps ly2dvi.out.dvi

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

On the same note, "-P" in 1.3.145 seems to behave differently than in
1.3.124.  For some reason, ly2dvi -P now is calling metafont to
regenerate all the fonts on each invocation.  If I call dvips
manually, the fonts aren't regenerated each time.  Bug?  Or
misconfiguration on my part?

>     /Mats

thanks,
david