[linux-audio-user] Magnifying LilyPond output by using landscape mode?

[Janina Sajka]

It's not exactly what you're asking about, but maybe related.

I'm recalling my experience when I was still low-vision with printed
scores. I was never able to get satisfactory magnification results. The
problem at the time was a matter of scaling, imho. The note heads (and
other elems, like the two bars indicating 16ths) were heavy and large
relative to fairly thin stave lines and note stems. So, if I magnified
enough to see the staves, the notes were heads were preposterously
large. On the other hand, if I made the noteheads comfortable to see, I
could not find the staff nor the note stems.

So, my guess that magnification of score would require a rescaling where
small elems receive more magnification than large, heavy ones.

Not sure if this helps at all.

Mario Lang writes:
> Hi.
> 
> To make a long story short, I recently gained the ability to make
> normal print into a tactile thing very easily.  Now, I'd really like
> to have a short piece of music for getting an idea how this stuff
> normally looks...  Of course not for playing or anything serious, its more
> a thing of interest.  However, if I print out a straight A4 PostScript
> file generated by LilyPond, the resulting information density is soo high
> that I basically can not feel much difference between the individual notes, let
> along figure out their exact position vertically.  What I'd like to do
> is to flip LilyPond output by 90 degree, and magnify it as much as possible,
> so that one system goes all the way along the long axis of an A4 paper.
> 
> I've choosen Musette from www.MutopiaProject.org as my example piece
> since it normally fits on one A4 page, so I guess after my magnification
> it should probably take up 3 or 4 pages?  Also, I know that tune in and out,
> so its surely a good way to getting a grasp of the system...
> I've tried all sorts of things like editing the LilyPond .latex files
> directly, switching to landscape mode and all that, but the result never really
> worked as I expected.  Digging through all the PostScript postprocessor
> tools didn't help either.  psresize can not flip, and psnup can not
> magnify and so on and so on.
> 
> PLEASE, if anyone got an idea how I could accomplish this and still keep
> a fairly high resolution, please please let me know.
> 
> P.S.: In case you're confused after reading this, I am blind, and tactile
> print is the only way for me to access graphical content right now.
> 
> -- 
> CYa,
>   Mario

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