Re: What's the point of \book{...} ?

[Mats Bengtsson]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> Graham Percival wrote:
>
> > On 29-Jun-05, at 12:46 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> >
> > > Graham Percival wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 28-Jun-05, at 6:32 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Unless there is a serious bug, in a lilypond-book document each 
> > > > > page of a \book is output as a lily-xxxx-1.eps, lily-xxxx-2.eps 
> > > > > etc. sequence, as well as a single EPS file, whose height is as big 
> > > > > as necessary. The latter is
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "whose height is as big as necessary" -- what do you mean by that?  The
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Big enough so the EPS file encompassess all pages when stacked 
> > > vertically.
> >
> >
> >
> > Is it hard-coded to the size of A4 paper?  I haven't tried other paper 
> > sizes,
>
>
> Like I said, it's not hardcoded at all. The EPS bbox is stretched to fit 
> all of the pages. If it doesn't work, bugreport please.


Come on guys, don't you realize that you are talking about different
things. If you read carefully what Han-Wen said 28-June, there are two
types of generated .eps files when you have an explicit \book{..} in a
lilypond-book score:
I) Page by page files lily-xxx-1.eps ... lily-xxx-N.eps
II) A single file lily-xxx.eps that contains the full score

Clearly, Graham keeps asking about the I) files, whereas Han-Wen keeps
answering about II) file!

Since only the I) files are used when you run lilypond-book on a LaTeX
file, Graham's concerns are completely valid, namely that the height of
each lily-xxx-n.eps file is taken from the default settings in
ly/paper-defaults.ly, not from the page layout of the LaTeX document.

The single large file II) is used for the HTML output from texinfo,
which I guess Han-Wen uses much more frequently than the LaTeX output
mode, so I can understand the confusion.

   /Mats