RE: Creating minimal previews

[Sven Axelsson]

No, I don't want any manual steps. But I have written a script to change the .ly source,

and that works just fine so I'm happy with the way things work now. No need to add

this feature to Lilypond then.

 

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Sven Axelsson

 

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From: Bec and John Silva [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: den 4 september 2005 01:28
To: Sven Axelsson
Cc: 'lilypond-user Mailinglist'
Subject: Re: Creating minimal previews

Hi Sven,

Not sure how much you would like this option, but couldn't you just output to png  

(or whatever Lilypond supports) and then crop the image for your website?

- John

I create preview images for the music published on my website.

Some of the pieces are made up of a \book containing up to

10 \score parts. In this case the preview image the preview

image is made up of the first system of all 10 parts. Now, I

would rather have a preview consisting only of the first system

of the first score. I figure I can do this by creating a

temporary .ly file where I extract the stuff I need using a

Python script or such. But maybe there is a better way?

Perhaps this would be useful for others as well, so it could

be added to Lilypond (as a sponsored feature) by adding a

--minimal-preview flag to the program?

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Sven Axelsson