Re: Landscape paper

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> > address@hidden writes:
> > > Han-Wen and Jan, is there any nice way to automatically
> > > switch \vsize and \hsize if orientation=landscape in 
> > > Lilypond? The problem is that these settings are done
> > > in the initialization files and I can't figure out how
> > > to call Scheme to be able to do a conditional setting
> > > (ly-get-paper-variable needs a grob as input).
> > 
> > When do you want this switch to happen exactly?
> > 
> > You can always do
> > 
> >     tmp = \hsize
> >     hsize = vsize
> >     vsize = \tmp
> 
> I can figure that out myself, the problem is the 
> (if orientation == "landscape") part.

I'm not sure if the support should  be in lilypond. IIRC lily doesn't
use either hsize or vsize. Shouldn't  the TeX wrappers do the switch?

> The next problem, as mentioned in another email, is that
> papersize seems to be set to a4 in params-init.ly no matter
> how it is set in the user .ly file.

That's strange. papersize is set to a4 in declarations-init. Then
there is

        % DO NOT change this without fixing -f ps output
        papersize = \papersize


(I don't know what this means. Jan?)

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