Re: Producing postscript for custom paper size (9x12" manuscript paper)?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

John Hawkinson schreef:

> Would you prefer to treat it as an option like 'landscape? E.g.:
>
>         #(set-default-paper-size "manuscript" 'manualfeed)
>
> My impression is that this is just an extra option that won't benefit
> anyone and would cause confusion, since I don't think anyone would not
> want that option.

Sounds like a good solution to me, ie. have all optional boolean 
settings as boolean args to set-default-paper-size. People can then also 
use 'manualfeed for any other format of paper that is unlikely to be in 
 a tray.

> > > Is there a reason you don't want to output the /PageSize info?
> > No, there's not. I'll gladly consider well written patches to deal with 
> > arbitrary paper sizes. The relevant code is in paper.scm ; there needs 
> > to be variant of
> >
> >   set-paper-size
> >
> > which can deal with dimensions, eg. of the form (set-paper-size '((9 . 
> > in) (12 . in)) 'landscape)
>
> This is a different problem, and one that seems a little less critical
> to solve. It's easy enough for people to edit paper-alist to add new
> paper types.
>
> The problem I'm concerned with is once you do that (or if you defined
> a set-paper-size that understood dimensions), LilyPond doesn't output
> the paper size in the pagedevice dictionary, so printers do not select
> the correct size paper.

Well,  I'll consider patches for that too :-)

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