Re: Creating combined manuscript/ruled paper

[karl]

Sam:
> I'm attempting to use LilyPond to create sheets with blank staves on the 
> left half of the page and college-ruled paper (equidistant lines spaced 
> by 9/32in, or 7.1mm, apart) on the right.
...
> How might I go about doing something like this?

This is a thing you easily code directly in postscript.

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%A4: 210 297mm
%72 per tum, 72/25.4 per mm
/a 72 25.4 div def
a a scale
0.1 setlinewidth

/xmin  18   def
/xlen 180   def

/ymin  32   def
/yst    1.7 def
/ysep  10.5 def

/nst   14   def

/y ymin def

nst {
    5 {
        xmin y moveto xlen 0 rlineto stroke
        /y y yst add def
    } repeat
    /y y ysep add def
} repeat

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a a scale
0.1 setlinewidth

/xmin   0   def
/xlen 210   def

/ysep  -7.1 def
/ymin   0   def
/ymax 297   def

ymax ysep ymin {
    xmin exch moveto xlen 0 rlineto stroke
} for

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Regards,
/Karl Hammar