Re: How to create smaller paper sizes

[Mats Bengtsson]

It turns out that ly2dvi makes its own interpretation of the 
pagesize paper variable, so you have to add some line in 
ly2dvi as well. Unless you use ly2dvi -P, you will get 
another surprise when you call dvips, since it uses its
default page size even if you have specified some other
page size in the geometry package in LaTeX (which is what
ly2dvi does), so you have to use 'dvips -t a5'.
At second thought, I'm afraid that dvips isn't configured
to know about A5 paper by default, see 
`kpsewhich --format='dvips config' config.ps`.


  /Mats

> On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> 
> > > I am transcribing some music for a marching band and need to set it on
> > > A5(landscape). I created a file A5.ly based on A4.ly with altered height 
> > > and
> > > width and used referred to that in my scores but the music was printed on
> > > A4(portrait)
> > 
> > Did you follow the instructions at
> > http://lilypond.org/stable/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Page-layout.html#Page%20layout
> > 
> >    /Mats
> > 
> 
> Yes
> 
> Here is the opening of my file enea.ly and the file a5.ly which lives in
> /usr/share/lilypond/ly. If I add sufficient bars to more than fill a small
> sheet, a new page is not added automatically as it would with music
> covering more than one a4 sheet.
> 
> a5.ly
> ==================
> \version "1.3.146"
> % a5.ly
> 
> hsize = 210.0 \mm
> vsize = 148.5 \mm
> 
> Enea.ly
> ================
> \paper{ papersize = "a5" }
> \include "paper16.ly"
> 
> \header{
>       title = "Enea"
>       composer = "Viaris"
>       instrument = "Baritone sax. (E flat)"
> }
> 
> \score{
> \notes \relative c''
> \sequential{
>       \time 2/4
>       \key c \major
> {
> g8 r d r | g g r4 | [d'8 c b a] | g r r4
> \repeat "volta" 2 {
> \repeat "percent" 6 {c,8 r g' r}
> d8 r g r d r r4 \repeat "percent" 6 {d8 r g r}
> c r g r | c r r4 \repeat "percent" 5 {c8 r g r}
> c8 r c r | f, f4 c8 | f r r4 | d8 \< r a' \! r
> }}}}
> 
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> 
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