Re: Landscape output displays sideways

[tim]

On 17 Feb 2023 at 18:03, Jean Abou Samra wrote:

>

> Le vendredi 17 février 2023 à 11:47 -0500, tim@risingdove.com a écrit :

> After some more investigation, it seems that my problem is not with

> Frescobaldi, but with Lilypond 2.24.1.

> The way you start your message, it sounds like you have already told the list about a

> problem, but I didn't receive anything?

I thought that I had posted before, but I was having some trouble getting mail to this list.

> My composition includes this block:

> \paper {

>   #(set-paper-size "letter" 'landscape)

> }

> The output is in landscape format, but it's displayed sideways. That is,

> the 8.5x11 page is displayed in portrait format, even though the music in

> it is in landscape. Apparently something is not being set properly in the

> PDF file to get it to rotate the page. It's always worked fine before, the

> output is landscape and is displayed properly.

> This sideways display appears both in Frescobaldi and in a separate PDF

> reader, so the problem must be in the PDF.

> Are you sure that it worked differently before?

It has certainly worked properly in the past. I may have missed the exact version that started messing up, but it's difficult to believe that *nobody* noticed it. I'm looking at a composition is version 2.18.2 that displays properly in landscape.

> For me,

> There is a big difference with

> \paper {

>   #(set-paper-size "letterlandscape")

> }

!! That makes it work! I don't get it, it seems to me that the "letter" 'landscape is misbehaving. But, good enough, I'll use "letterlandscape" from now on. Thanks!

I have another question. I get five of these messages:

warning: MIDI channel wrapped around

warning: remapping modulo 16

I am-generating a MIDI file, but the only line in the source file talking about MIDI is

  \midi {

    \tempo 2=100

  }

in the score block. What's going on.

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Tim Slattery

tim@risingdove.com