Re: x y position on page of multiple fragments

[Victor Adan]

Hi Rob,

If you are thinking of distributing score snippets in boxes arbitrarily placed 
on the page, you might also look at using lilypond-book, which is a LilyPond 
helper tools for embedding LilyPond score in Latex documents. This way, you 
could define the layout ot the boxes in Latex using tables and insert the code 
for each of your LilyPond snippes in each of the table's cells. I've never done 
this specifically, but this is something I would try in your situation. 
Look at 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-program/LilyPond_002dbook#LilyPond_002dbook
for more general info.

best,

Victor.

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:32:35AM -0600, Trevor Bača wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Rob Canning <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > hello,
> > i am trying to do a new version of a piece i originally made in finale
> > its a grid type mobile structure type score
> > what i need is someone to point me at the documentation that would help me
> > make multiple musical fragments and then distribute them on a single page in
> > a number of configurations - a grid to start with - but once i know how to
> > make little musical snips of set dimentions and move them on the x y axis of
> > the page should be easy from there...
> > there is a picture of the score i made in finale on this page about halfway
> > down
> > http://www.robcanning.info/melencolia.html
> >
> > i am guessing this kind of work is going to be alot easier with lilypond
> > i just need a pointer where to start in the docs 
> > <address@hidden><http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user>
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Rob,
> 
> The NonMusicalPaperColumn grob can be quite useful for this sort of thing.
> 
> Take a look at NR 4.4.3 "Explicit staff and system positioning" and try out
> the X-offset and Y-offset attributes. Note that NonMusicalPaperColumn lives
> only in the Score context. And note that you use \override to override the
> grob in the \with block of the Score or in your \layout block but,
> strangely, if you override the grob on the fly in your note entry you must
> use the unusual \overrideProperty command.
> 
> 
> Trevor.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Trevor Bača
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