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List:       lilypond-bug
Subject:    Website comments: Essay is great but can I print it?
From:       "Silas S. Brown" <ssb22 () cam ! ac ! uk>
Date:       2003-09-29 19:08:38
Message-ID: 16248.33590.135397.265500 () ssb22 ! joh ! cam ! ac ! uk
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Hi,

I'm not sure if this is the right email address for this
but...

The essay http://lilypond.org/web/about/automated-engraving/
is very good, and I want to print it out to show some
musical friends who are not (yet) computerised.  However, I
find it an awful struggle to print.  I've tried Mozilla and
Internet Explorer and always something goes wrong with the
images, especially the comparison of the Bach - depending on
the browser version, it either straddles a page break, or
gets clipped at the right-hand margin, or gets compressed
down so as to be unreadable.

Eventually I managed to get it to print "OK-ish" by hacking
the HTML and adding WIDTH= tags as follows:

Image                         Added tag
---------------------------------------
baer-suite1-fullpage.png      width=300
henle-suite1-fullpage.png     width=300
baer-suite1-line.png          width=600
henle-suite1-line.png         width=600
finale-sarabande-full.png     width=600
baer-sarabande.png            width=600
lily14-sarabande.png          width=600
lily14-sarabande-correct.png  width=600
lily17-sarabande.png          width=600
baer-sarabande.png            width=600

but I don't really like this "solution" (besides anything
else, it only works in one particular version of IE).  CSS
can do better but it's still a hack.

Would it be possible to make a "printable version" of the
essay, say in PDF (or HTML+images but made with printing in
mind)?

Thanks,          Silas


-- 
Silas S Brown, St John's College Cambridge UK http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~ssb22

"Let him that thinks he is standing beware that he does not fall"
  - 1 Corinthians 10:12



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