Re: RESOLVED letter size, paper height

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 12:02:28 -0400
David Raleigh Arnold <address@hidden> wrote:

> I am using the tarball 2.12.2 on a debian
> stable system.
> 
> I found that without paper-height, the page
> was too long as displayed by gv or xpdf.
> Is #(set-paper-size "letter") correct? If
> so, it doesn't work without stating the
> paper-height.  I think this is a bug in
> ghostscript, not lilypond, but it seems
> like an easy workaround.  Sorry if this
> has come up before.  Regards, daveA
> 
> 
> \paper {
>   #(set-paper-size "letter")
> % trim margin for a4 users
> % letter width is about 215 mm
> margin = 20\mm
> line-width = 175\mm
> % this should not be necessary (letter):
> paper-height = 279.4\mm
> }

Sorry, I could not reproduce the problem. The -V switch
output was right, and the pdfinfo was ok too.  I'll never
know what was wrong before.  I only changed the one line.
Thanks for looking.  I never thought that it was a
lilypond problem anyway.  Regards, daveA