Hi Janina. No, that doesnt help :-). Since I am not trying to actually read the result, I just want one tactile example for getting a feel about how visual music works. Again, I am not trying to read this with my eyes, just trying to get a representation I can touch. It sounds strange maybe, but experience taught me that it is very useful to have a grip on how the sighted world actually works with things. Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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 > > -- > > Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 > Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com > > Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) > janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org > > If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. > -- CYa, Mario