Re: lilypond-book

[Mats Bengtsson]

Jeffrey Philpott wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> I'm trying to set a songbook using lilypond-book, or rather 
> lilypond-book-snapshot. (Lilypond-Snapshot 2.4.2 on Debian Sarge) and am 
> having a few problems with the output:
>
> 1. Because the songbook is also for children, all songs are set to 23pt, 
> which just appear as a mess on the output (notes and text font). If I 
> use 20pt. no problems, perfect output. I tried changing ec-fonts to the 
> newer version of 1.0.11, but that gave a mess for every size, so I'm 
> back to 1.0.7 again. (23pt. worked in 2.2)

It's much easier to realize what kind of problems you refer to if you
supply a small example file. The ec-fonts are not used at all in version
2.2.

> 2. Linewidth is giving me a headache. Setting \linewidth in \paper gives 
> a perfect output (with lilypond-snapshot), titles and music centered 
> properly. Setting \linewidth in \layout leaves the \header with titles 
> too much to the right. Setting \header into \score gives no title output 
>  at all. So I leave \linewidth in \paper!. However when using 
> lilypond-book, the linewidth stays stubbornly at 19cm with no 
> possibility of changing this, whatever I try.

The linewidth of the scores in lilypond-book is taken from the line
width of the latex document. If you want to override this, there is
an option in lilypond-book:
\begin[linewidth=10\cm]{lilypond}
...
\end{lilypond}


  /Mats