RE: Style sheets

[Ralph Little]

Hi,
Thanks, that all seems fine.

I think the vast majority of what I want to do to make life easier is to set
some appropriately "nice" fonts globally and make up some shortcuts for my
favourite markups.

I will have a fiddle and see what pops up.

It would seem to me that if people have a favourite format for marking up
their Lilypond, it would assist newcomers to Lilypond to have a "gallery" of
styles from which one could start from, similar to the templates, all
adjusted up with fonts and stuff to look nice and presentable. I know we
have the mutopia stuff which is a nice place to go to, to get this sort of
stuff.

The defaults for Lilypond look alright, but to get anything presentable, you
need to mess about with fonts and things.

What I'll do is have a look at some professionally printed music and see if
I can emulate some of them in general look and font presentation and
generate something like a plug-in that others could use.

>From what I am used to playing off (brass band music), there seems to be a
definate divide between "modern" markups, with san serif fonts, and "old"
markups which use serif fonts. Surely, it is also true that in the Jazz and
Orchestral worlds, music "looks" different and has a number of different
conventions in terms of general look and feel, and it would be nice to pull
this all together to assist newbies in getting off the ground so-to-speak.

Cheers,
Ralph

-----Original Message-----
From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: 30 September 2003 13:18
To: Thorkil Wolvendans
Cc: Ralph Little; Lilypond Mailinglist
Subject: Re: Style sheets


In contrast to the "common.ly" file sent by Nicolas earlier today,
Thorkil's file is a template, similar to all the template files
that are included in the LilyPond distribution in
.../doc/input/templates/.

If I were you, I would put definitions like "Dynamics" context
in a separate common.ly file, since these things are more likely
to have to be updated when new versions of LilyPond appear and in
that case, you don't want to update every single input file.

 > ...
> \include "paper16.ly"
> \paper  { papersize = "a4" }

If you really want to change the paper size, you have to
include "paper16.ly" or some other of the "paperNN.ly"
files AFTER you have set the papersize variables, otherwise
it won't have any effect, see the reference manual.
In this case it doesn't really matter, since a4 already is the
default but if you want letter size, for example, you have to
switch the two lines.


    Mats

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