Re: Letter page length too long

[Graham Percival]

On 22-Oct-05, at 9:39 PM, Michael Haynie wrote:

> I've noticed that Lilypond consistently produces pages that are 
> roughly 1/2 a line too long, with the result that my footer line is 
> cut off.

It's not actually lilypond; it's dvips.

First, make sure you set the paper size to letter or letterpaper in 
lilypond, since lilypond defaults to A4.

Then, assuming you're using the fink command-line version, open up a 
console and run texsetup at root.  (I -think- texsetup is the right 
command; it's something like that, at least)
Check all the paper sizes you can find (ie under "global settings", 
"dvips settings", and "dvipsm settings"), and make sure they're 
letterpaper.

dvips is _supposed_ to get its paper size from the PAPERSIZE 
environment variable, but it doesn't.  :(


If you're using the application, then I'm not certain how to fix it.  
It would depend on how exactly the app is put together and how dvips is 
integrated.

HTH,
- Graham