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List:       lilypond-user
Subject:    Re: Landscape output
From:       J Martin Rushton <martinrushton56 () btinternet ! com>
Date:       2015-06-29 22:44:49
Message-ID: 5591CA61.8010104 () btinternet ! com
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On 26/06/15 16:16, Alexander Kobel wrote:
> On 2015-06-26 16:51, Peter Gentry wrote:
>> Hello
>> 
>> My paper block is %
>> ----------------------------------------------------------- % set
>> the paper layout for binding % footer has title and page number %
>> ----------------------------------------------------------- 
>> \paper { #(set-default-paper-size "a4" 'landscape) two-sided =
>> ##t [...] } % end of paper block
>> 
>> But the pdf output is still A4 Portrait where am I going wrong?
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> see
> 
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/paper-size-and-au
tomatic-scaling
>
> 
> 
> set-default-paper-size must be called at top-level, out of the
> paper block; the alternative is to use set-paper-size in the paper
> block:
> 
> #(set-default-paper-size "a4" 'landscape) \paper { ... }
> 
> %% or
> 
> \paper { #(set-paper-size "a4" 'landscape) ... }
> 
> 
> HTH, Alexander
> 
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Thanks for this Alexander.  I was having problems engraving a piece
for use in a well-known online encyclopedia and had half a page of
white space.  A6 landscape suits the length perfectly.

Regards,
Martin
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