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Subject: Re: definition of paper
From: james <derhindemith () googlemail ! com>
Date: 2008-11-29 19:42:13
Message-ID: F46C13F6-6642-46B8-9B00-96E497683C10 () googlemail ! com
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Am 29.11.2008 um 19:59 schrieb John Sellers:
> In the Learning manual, I searched the one page version for "paper"
> and found
> that the concept
>
> \paper { }
>
> is nowhere defined or explained.
If you're really interested, in section 3.1 How LilyPond input files
work, there is a brief introduction to these more advanced concepts.
The LilyPond input format is quite free-form, giving experienced
users a lot of flexibility to structure their files however they
wish. But this flexibility can make things confusing for new users.
This section will explain some of this structure, but may gloss over
some details in favor of simplicity. For a complete description of
the input format, see File structure.
The link to file structure (in the Notation Reference) goes on to
say: that, among other things, \paper is "an output definition". And
that "Such a definition at the toplevel changes the default book-wide
settings."
Also, since the things that can be placed in a \paper block affect
spacing, which isn't covered at all in the Learning Manual, the
relevant section in the Notation Reference re-iterates that a \paper
block affects scores in a book, and that the global paper layout is
affected by the \paper block.
I'm not saying that it's a particularly lengthy explanation, but it
certainly sufficed for me to understand that a \paper block is
similar to a \layout or \midi block, except that it contains things
specific to how things are laid out on the paper.
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