Re: ly2dvi --preview bug in LilyPond 1.7?

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Sawer <address@hidden> writes:

    Chris> I don't know how hard it would be to do, but it would be a
    Chris> huge help for us if the Lilypond 1.6 --preview behaviour
    Chris> could be reimplemented in LilyPond
    Chris> 1.7 [an image *just* of the first line, no titles or
    Chris>     anything]. I'm not
    Chris> bothered if it's given a different name, for example
    Chris> --small-preview, but it saved us a lot of time making the
    Chris> preview images for Mutopia, as it removed the need to mess
    Chris> around with the Gimp.

I agree that the 1.6 behavior is a great idea.  I use it on my
website, too.  

    Chris> What would be even better is if one of these images was
    Chris> produced for each "section" of the .ly file (I'm not sure
    Chris> of the proper name for these sections), in the same way
    Chris> that a MIDI file is produced for each section. I don't know
    Chris> if this is easily achievable, though.

Each score?  I agree with this, too.  I typically write in parts, and
I've been putting each part in a separate lily file, but I'd like to
switch to having them all in one file, but then I can't use the
--preview feature.


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