Re: Help in setting up music fragments in LaTeX

[jeff williams]

Greetings Mats,

Thanks for the help.  Unfortunately, I had tried both suggestions before 
writing to you.  With the linewidth parameter, the staff itself is 2.5 inches 
wide, which is not the intention.  The fragment tag also seems to do no good.

From what I can tell, lilypond is taking the default line width of 6 inches or 
so and treating the white space of that line as non-padded spaces.  In other 
words, the white space is not being treated like white space but like 
characters which need to be printed.  Thus the height problem is caused by 
fitting a 6 inch line on the 2.5 inch card -- the line wrap itself is causing 
trouble.  I think.  The same height problem happens even if I print the music 
in 11 point type.

Being more of a groff type of person rather than LaTeX, I'm not knowledgable 
about some of the subtle problems of integrating lilypond into a LaTeX 
document.

In the documentation for lilypond, one bug that was noted is the linewidth of 
a fragment is not properly handled.  Is this what I am running up against?  
If so, possibly the flash cards can't be done with the current lilypond 
release.

Again, thanks for your help.

jeff williams

On Wednesday 03 December 2003 04:33 am, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> The linewidth option should do it. Try something like:
>
> \lilypond[notime,26pt,linewidth=2.5in]
>   { \clef alto c'4  }
>
> A good alternative is
>
> \lilypond[notime,26pt,fragment]
>   { \clef alto c'4  }
>
> I don't know anything about the labels style, but it seems that
> you will have to fiddle with some parameters since the vertical
> spacing breaks.
>
>     /Mats
>
> jeff williams wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I'm trying to print a viola flashcard using LaTeX and Lilypond.  Output
> > will be on laser business card stock, thus I need to use the Labels style
> > sheet for LaTeX.
> >
> > The problem, the fragment of music which will be on the front of the card
> > seems to be the width of a normal line of print (6.5 in), and not the 3.5
> > in needed for the business card.  I've tried explicitly setting line
> > width as per the lilypond-book manual, but the output still overflows the
> > business card.
> >
> > I've also tried "raggedright", explicit line breaks, and the fragment tag
> > but to no avail.
> >
> > Any ideas?  I sure would like to help my daughter learn alto cleff as she
> > transitions from the violin to the viola.
> >
> > Many thanks.

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