Re: same pages in a4 and letter

[Neil Puttock]

2008/9/23 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:17:21 -0700
> Patrick Horgan <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Neil Puttock wrote:
>> > ...some stuff elided...
>> > This is rather nifty, but you're reinventing the wheel. :)
>
> Well, IMO the main point is setting the margins automatically -- and
> simply the idea that this would be useful to have better quality music
> for both paper sizes at once.  I could imagine that this could be very
> useful for mutopia and similar projects.  I often used to see scores
> that looked great in a4 but contained a final page with two lines of
> score in letter, or vice versa.
> (I haven't looked at mutopia in the past few years, but I'd be
> surprised if such problems were resolved)

Oh, I agree it's useful; what I meant was you're using a custom
command line option to set the paper size when there's a already one
available.

> Besides, -dpaper-size=\"letter\" *is* a built-in option, so lilypond
> won't display a warning message.  The next version of this file will
> use this method.

I notice AU says escape the quotes, but I've never had any problems
leaving them out.

Regards,
Neil