Re: PDF with no page breaks

[Nils]

On Thu, 17 May 2012 07:44:49 -0700
Jay Anderson <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Nils <address@hidden> wrote:
> > What happens if you picked a width too short or too wide? Especially what 
> > happens if it is too wide?
> 
> I don't remember right now. I believe it left extra space on the right
> when it was too wide. If it's too short I imagine things would start
> getting compressed. Try it out.
> 
> This was my paper block:
> 
> \paper
> {
>   paper-width = 100\in
>   paper-height = 4\in
>   bookTitleMarkup = ##f
>   oddHeaderMarkup = ##f
>   evenHeaderMarkup = ##f
>   tagline = ##f
>   copyright = ##f
>   ragged-right = ##t
> }
> 
> There's currently a bug in the line breaker which make it take a long
> time when setting everything on one line so you may need to do this in
> your score:
> 
> \override Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn #'line-break-permission = ##f
> 
> (see http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2264)
> 


If it is too short then the notes are just cut off.
And you can't get too wide. 1000\in is already too much. Either for my PDF 
viewer, for PDF in general or maybe for Lilypond

Nils