Re: Custom page size in LaTeX causes lilypond-book to produce bad output.

[Michael Haynie]

As requested, attached are 4 files: two source files representing a 
broken and working example (nearly identical, as a diff will show, and 
the resulting output.  Both files were built using
        lilypond-book -f latex --psfonts <filename>
followed by invocations of latex, dvips, etc.

Like this:

lilypond-book -f latex --psfonts working.ltx
latex \\nonstopmode\\input working.tex
dvips -T 8.5in,13.13in -Ppdf -h working.psfonts -o working.ps 
working.dvi
ps2pdf working.ps working.pdf
rm working.tex working.ps working.dvi

Obviously, the examples could be accomplished more simply, but then I 
wouldn't be able to use LaTeX's excellent TOC, chapter, index, etc. 
functionality.

broken.ltx
Description: Binary data

working.ltx
Description: Binary data

broken.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

working.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

On Nov 14, 2005, at 4:43 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> I cannot repeat the problem. Could you please send a small but  
> complete example
> file that illustrates the problem to the mailing list?
> Personally, I have always used the geometry package to get custom page
> sizes in LaTeX.
>
> Also, if the only purpose of using lilypond-book is to get the page  
> size, I
> hope you realize that it can be done also within LilyPond. Some  
> additional
> information has been added in the manual for version 2.7, that also  
> should be
> relevant to you, see
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.7/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/ 
> Paper-size.html#Paper-size
>
>  /Mats
>
> Michael Haynie wrote:
>
> > Greetings:
> >
> > In Lilypond 2.2, I used to LaTeX with the vmargin package to define a  
> > custom paper size for a 1/2 size songbook.  With lilypond 2.6, simply  
> > including the vmargin  package ( just \include[vmargin] -- it's part  
> > of a typical TeX installation) causes lilypond-book to produce a  
> > score with the first measure of the first system placed up beside the  
> > title block for the piece.
> >
> > Has anyone found a way to change page dimensions in this way?
> >
> > Does anyone know what might be tripping Lilypond up?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> >
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