How to produce a5 paper music (2)

[Marco Caliari]

Hi.

Here is another way to produce a5 paper music.

1) build a file a5-init.ly in ly/ directory with

\version "1.6.2"
%a5.ly

hsize = 148.5 \mm
vsize = 210 \mm

2) add

@ a5 148.5mm 210mm
@ + ! %%DocumentPaperSizes: a5
@+ %%BeginPaperSize: a5
@+ a5
@+ %%EndPaperSize

to your config.ps file

3) add

'a5' : 'a5paper',

to your ly2dvi file, after

'a4' : 'a4paper',
'letter' : 'letterpaper',

4) begin your .ly file (say enea.ly) with

\paper{papersize = "a5" orientation = "landscape"}

5) run ly2dvi as usually

6) view the output with 

xdvi -paper a5r enea.dvi

7) convert to ps with

dvips -ta5 -tlandscape enea.dvi

8.1) put 2 a5 page to 1 a4 page with

pstops -pa4 "2:0L(21cm,14.85cm)+1L(21cm,0cm)" enea.ps enea.a5.ps

8.2) or

pstops -pa4 "2:0L(21cm,14.85cm)+1R(0cm,14.85cm)" enea.ps enea.a5.ps

By default, gv shows only an a5 paper and in landscape mode, but you can 
choose a4 paper and portrait mode. When printing (choosing a4 paper size), 
all is fine.

This method is more complicate, but you don't have to resize within 
pstops.

-- 
Marco