Re: Gotlandstoner

[Erik Ronström]

> If I apply the attached patch to a cloned git archive I get the following 
> results with ghostscript 9.06:
> 
> bok2: Original size 9.996.691 bytes, optimized size 2.043.380 bytes
> bok3: Original size 13.706.324 bytes, optimized size 2.447.232 bytes
> 
> Unfortunately I found that a current git master of ghostscript does not work 
> as intended. I have to bisect and investigate that problem.

Lovely! Thanks again!

>>> A lot of pages contain a lot of white space. It would be possible to 
>>> include every staff as a paragraph instead of including the whole pdfs ….
>>> 
>> Yeah, but that is intentional. I didn’t want tunes split over page breaks 
>> (except the tunes that are too long to fit in one page). Actually that was 
>> the main reason for not using lilypond-book: I wanted more fine-grained 
>> control over vertical spacing, and I found that much easier to achieve when 
>> lilypond takes care of the whole typesetting process.
> 
> I did not write about using lilypond-book, I never use it and prefer 
> pdf(la)tex/xe(la)tex/lua(la)tex for similar reasons. 

I know, I just meant that I find it easier to tweak vertical spacing in 
lilypond than working with individual staff systems (be it lilypond-book, latex 
or whatever).

> I agree that there are valid reasons not to split over page breaks if a page 
> turn would be the result. But why do you have objections against  a score 
> starting on an even page and continuing on an uneven page?

Actually, I started out that way. But it turned out that the reduction in 
number of pages was not very big in the end (just over 20%), so I went for the 
tradeoff of paying a few more pages for getting as many tunes as possible fit 
into a single page. Of course that’s mainly an aesthetic decision (and I do 
find it slightly easier when sightreading) but another benefit is that if you 
want to print a single tune from the pdf file, you generally only have to print 
one page.

> A possible extension of your work: You might generate score videos (example) 
> and add links to those videos in your books ….

Nice!

Erik