Re: Changing program defaults

[David Kastrup]

Nick Payne <address@hidden> writes:

> On 28/10/12 14:07, Nick Payne wrote:
>> On 28/10/12 14:01, Daniel Rosen wrote:
>>> I'm sorry, I should have been more clear--I'm trying to figure out
>>> how to change the program files so that I don't have to put that in
>>> every single document.
>> You can run lilypond with the command line parameter
>>
>> -dpaper-size=\"letter\"
>
> Actually, if you open lily.scm in an editor, look for the text string
> paper-size "a4" and change it to paper-size "letter", that will change
> the default paper size without having to specify anything on the command
> line or source file(s).

That is an excessively bad idea since it means that his scores will
without discernible reason be different on different computers, spacing,
linebreaks, pagebreaks, everything.

-- 
David Kastrup