Re: Bigger Output for Vision-Impaired Users

[Mats Bengtsson]

Please always tell what LilyPond version you use, to be sure to obtain
a relevant answer. I assume that you have version 2.4.

Have you tried to increase the staff size? See
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Setting-global-staff-size.html#Setting-global-staff-size

If the 26pt size is still too small for you, I would recommend a
two-step procedure. First use LilyPond to typeset pieces in normal
size but on A5 landscape papers, see
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Paper-size.html#Paper-size
Then, you can magnify the result and print in on A4 paper. Maybe the
easiest way is to choose "Expand small pages to paper size" in the print
options of Acrobat reader. As an alternative, you can use a program like
psresize to resize the PostScript file produced by LilyPond. If you 
really would want A3 size output but only have an A4 printer, there is
a Linux program called 'poster' that can magnify an A4 page to A3 size
printed on 2 A4 papers with nice cut marks.

   /Mats


Matthew T. Atkinson wrote:
> 'ello,
>
> I've only been using lilypond for a short while and have already found
> it very useful.  I'm writing to ask a question about how the output of
> the program might be modified slightly.
>
> I am vision-impaired and have been playing the Clarinet for a number of
> years.  When I was at school, my music was always photocopied so it was
> on A3 instead of A4 paper.  This allowed me to see it well enough to
> learn it.  Since I left school (I'm now at University) I've not really
> had much new music because of the cost/time of having to photocopy it.
>
> I was wondering if I could alter the output of lilypond so that it still
> uses A4 paper but makes the music (well, everything it outputs) 1.41
> times as large - so that it is as big as my old A3 music is (though on
> many more pages).  If anyone knows of a way I could do this, I'd be
> grateful for information about it.  I am reasonably familiar with TeX so
> if it requires some low-level tinkering I should be able to manage that.
>
> It would probably be best for the output to be landscape on A4 so that
> the lines are long enough to be practical.  This would essentially make
> it the same as my A3 music but with twice as many pages.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice you may have,
>
> best regards,

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