Re: How to produce a5 paper music (2)

[Mats Bengtsson]

When I want to print a piece of music in A5 size, 
two pages on each A4-paper, I typeset it as usual
in A4 size and than use 'psnup -2 file.ps' on the 
Postscript. Of course, the pstops command is much
more general, but I've never managed to understand
all the options. Whenever you want to rescale a 
Postscript file, make sure that you use Type1 fonts:
dvips -ulilypond -Ppdf file.dvi
(or use 'lilypond -p').

   /Mats


> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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