Hi
Apologies that
only half this question is Lilypond, but I'm sure someone in
this group will have shared my frustration.
I am very
tempted to buy a nice wide monitor. I currently play from the
screen of my laptop which sits on top of my grand piano. It's
a real pain if I have to rotate the screen and the laptop to
play from an A4 page at more or less full size. If I got a
nice big monitor, the laptop could sit beside the piano and
everything would be lovely …
… except … any
PDF reader will display 2 pages side by side. On a monitor
with a 4:1 aspect ratio, this means that half of it is unused.
Despite searching for a week, I haven't found any PDF reader
which even thinks that wasting 50% of the display area is a
bad idea. Does anyone know of any PDF reader which will
display more than 2 pages at once? This is the best solution I
have so far thought of. Other suggestions would be very
welcome.
On the other
hand, I spend a huge percentage of my time playing music I've
typed into LilyPond. It would be very easy to make a PDF file
where pages were 4:1 and landscape. But rather than have a
single line of music 80cm long, it would be good to have the
page divided into four 20cm panels. Could someone tell me how
to ask LilyPond to put music into columns? So far, I've only
been able to find out about how to ask LilyPond to put words
into columns.
Many thanks in
advance
Paul McKay