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Node:PostScript output, Next:Scheme output, Previous:TeX output, Up:Output formats
PostScript output
LilyPond can produce PostScript directly, without going through TeX.
Currently, this is mainly useful if you cannot use TeX, because direct
PostScript output has some problems; see Bugs below.
$ lilypond -fps foo.ly GNU LilyPond 1.3.144 Now processing: `foo.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music...[3] Preprocessing elements... Calculating column positions... paper output to foo.ps... $ cat /usr/share/lilypond/pfa/feta20.pfa foo.ps | lpr
BUGS
Text font selection is broken.
The .ps file does not contain the .pfa font files. To print a .ps created through direct postscript output, you should prepend the necessary .pfa files to LilyPond's .ps output, or upload them to the printer before printing.
The line height calculation is broken, you must set lineheight in
the paperblock if you have more than one staff in your score, e.g.
...
\paper {
% Set line height to 40 staff spaces
lineheight = 40
}
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