Re: Completing the Lilypond puzzle

[Sven Axelsson]

On 09/10/05, lars prins <address@hidden> wrote:

Lilypond can do everything and lilypond is for everybody.
Yet, I don't seem to be part of this equation somehow.

I am getting very frustrated to get Lilypond to do the
simplest thing, to create a PDF file with 4 pages of empty
piano sheet music that I can use to jot notes on. That
shouldn't be too difficult right?

No, it isn't very difficult. But I agree with you, the first step to
learning Lilypond is fairly steep. Now for your problem - here's
how I would do a bunch of blank sheets for piano music:

%%%%%%%%
pages = {
  % 4 pages with 6 systems each
 \repeat unfold 24 { s1 \break }
}

\new PianoStaff <<
  \new Staff {\clef treble \pages}
  \new Staff {\clef bass \pages}
>>
 
\layout {
  indent = 0.0\cm
  \context {
    \Score
    % Remove things we don't need.
    \remove Bar_number_engraver
    \remove Bar_engraver
    \remove Time_signature_engraver
  }
}

\paper {
  % Tweak the dimensions so the desired number of systems fit.
  hsize = 21\cm
  vsize = 27.5\cm
  leftmargin = 2\cm
  linewidth = 17\cm
  topmargin = 
0.5\cm
  bottommargin = 0\cm
  % Set all of these to empty, else Lilypond will use them in
  % the layout and that might mess up formatting.
  tagline = ""
  bookTitleMarkup = ""
  scoreTitleMarkup = ""
  oddHeaderMarkup = ""
  evenHeaderMarkup = ""
}
%%%%%%%%
-- 
Sven Axelsson