Paper size - GNU LilyPond
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#### 10.4.1 Paper size

To change the paper size, there are two commands,

    #(set-default-paper-size "a4")
    \paper {
      #(set-paper-size "a4")
    }

The first command sets the size of all pages. The second command sets the size of the pages that the `\paper` block applies to – if the `\paper` block is at the top of the file, then it will apply to all pages. If the `\paper` block is inside a `\book`, then the paper size will only apply to that book.

Support for the following paper sizes are included by default, `a6`, `a5`, `a4`, `a3`, `legal`, `letter`, `11x17` (also known as tabloid).

Extra sizes may be added by editing the definition for `paper-alist` in the initialization file `scm/paper.scm`.

If the symbol `landscape` is supplied as an argument to `set-default-paper-size`, the pages will be rotated by 90 degrees, and wider line widths will be set correspondingly.

    #(set-default-paper-size "a6" 'landscape)

Setting the paper size will adjust a number of `\paper` variables (such as margins). To use a particular paper size with altered `\paper` variables, set the paper size before setting the variables.

This page is for LilyPond-2.8.8 (stable-branch).

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