RE: Changing program defaults

[Daniel Rosen]

That's really OK in my case--no one else I know uses LilyPond. :-P 

DR


-----Original Message-----
From: David Kastrup [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 1:33 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Changing program defaults

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.

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David Kastrup