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In Lilypond the paper size can be set to A4, A5, Letter and so forth. However I have only a short song, and I want to embed it lateron. Therefore the output from Lilypond must be cropped somehow.
Is there a possibility to let Lilypond itself do this? Some setting to the \paper{} block, perhaps?
Boldewyn
Posted 2010-01-17T19:06:51.170
Reputation: 3 835
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-dpreview command-line option.If you want multiple systems:
\include "lilypond-book-preamble.ly"
\paper { oddFooterMarkup = ##f }
Have ImageMagick convert autocrop it with the -trim option, e.g. via a shell script.
thSoft
Posted 2010-01-17T19:06:51.170
Reputation: 470
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I managed this with running:
lilypond -dbackend=eps -dresolution=600 --png FILE.ly
And a paper section within the FILE.ly like this:
\paper {
indent = 0\mm
line-width = 110\mm
oddHeaderMarkup = ""
evenHeaderMarkup = ""
oddFooterMarkup = ""
evenFooterMarkup = ""
}
Flor
Posted 2010-01-17T19:06:51.170
Reputation: 31
Worked perfectly for me, with the great advantage that no third party package is necessary. I've created a croped-paper.ly definition and included it. – neves – 2014-09-05T03:03:58.560
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From the Lilypond manual:
Extra sizes may be added by editing the definition for paper-alist in the initialization file scm/paper.scm.
You can therefore add your own page sizes to the default ones.
harrymc
Posted 2010-01-17T19:06:51.170
Reputation: 306 093
2Yes, I read that, too, but actually I have several songs, and doing trial-and-error with each to find the correct height and then editing paper.scm for each is a bit of a hassle. Auto-cropping to the minimum width/height would be much, much more useful. – Boldewyn – 2010-01-18T14:39:20.570
Newbie question: What's a system in lilypond terms? – starbeamrainbowlabs – 2019-10-21T00:32:34.287