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List:       lilypond-user
Subject:    Re: Music sizes_MORE
From:       David Bobroff <bobroff () centrum ! is>
Date:       2008-05-29 7:20:30
Message-ID: 483E593E.5060203 () centrum ! is
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Further searching on the web led me here:

http://www.encoremusic.com/band/2630016.html

It plainly states that the flip folder "...will hold music up to seven 
inches wide and four and one half inches tall."

I suppose that is the size you were looking for.  As to what to call 
it...I don't know.

-David Bobroff

David Bobroff wrote:
> I know the size that Garrett is talking about.  I remember the 
> appoximate size and measured what my memory said was the size.  I then 
> went to:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size#North_American_paper_sizes
> 
> There I found a reference to a size called "statement" or "half letter" 
> which is 5.5"x8.5" (half of an 8.5x11 inch sheet).  This is analogous to 
> A5 paper.  This may or may not be the actual size of the "march" paper, 
> but it's close, and it's something you can easily make if you can't buy it.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> -David Bobroff
> 
> James E. Bailey wrote:
>> Sorry, I don't know anything about marching bands, but I imagine they 
>> would use normal concert (9x12) sized pages. (So it would be printed 
>> on 12x18 paper.) If you like I can send you my paper.scm file wherein 
>> I *think* I still have all those defined so it's a bit easier to get 
>> lilypond to print to that size. Or, it's fairly easy to see the 
>> examples in the file and add your own paper sizes
>> Am 29.05.2008 um 06:15 schrieb Garrett Fitzgerald:
>>
>>> Thanks, James, that's part of what I was looking for. The booklet 
>>> size I was thinking of was marching band size -- do you know what 
>>> that's called?
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:48 PM, James E. Bailey 
>>> <jamesebailey@mac.com> wrote:
>>> 8.5x11 is US-ANSI letter size. booklet sized sheets that when folded 
>>> will be 8.5x11 are tabloid (and are 11x17).
>>> Normal music scores (in the US) are 9x12, US ARCH B size. Booklet 
>>> sized sheets that when folded will be 9x12 are US ARCH C size (and 
>>> are 12x18)
>>>
>>> Am 28.05.2008 um 22:23 schrieb Garrett Fitzgerald:
>>>
>>> I'm currently working on some marches, and I was thinking about 
>>> getting them printed as a booklet, as well as 8.5x11. What paper size 
>>> do I call this? Also, what is the typical size for printing a 
>>> full-page music sheet? How about conductors' scores?
>>>
>>> "Dammit, Jim, I'm a clarinetist, not a typesetter!"
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