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Thread #48174   Message #721826
Posted By: JohnInKansas
02-Jun-02 - 07:41 PM
Thread Name: site for blank music manuscript
Subject: RE: site for blank music manuscript
If you open a new document in Word, hit Control-F9, and paste the following between the "braces" that appear, you can print a staff sheet to any PostScript capable printer and get a perfectly useful page of blank staves:

PRINT \p page "0 setgray [1 6 1 6 1 6 1 6 1 36] 0 setdash 450.00 setlinewidth 306 90 moveto 306 650 lineto stroke"

If you really want to get fancy, add a separate Control-F9 with the following between the braces:

PRINT \p page" /right {36 0 translate 0 0 moveto} bind def /up {0 36 translate 0 0 moveto} bind def /left {-36 0 translate 0 0 moveto} bind def /down {0 -36 translate 0 0 moveto} bind def /draw {newpath 0 0 15 0 360 arc stroke 0 0 2.5 0 360 arc stroke 0 0 10 225 315 arc stroke -5 7.5 1.5 0 360 arc stroke 5 7.5 1.5 0 360 arc stroke} bind def gsave 52 52 translate draw 0 1 13 {right draw} for 0 1 18 {up draw} for 0 1 13 {left draw} for 0 1 17 {down draw} for grestore"

The last one may not work if your printer doesn't have at least a couple of MB of memory - and sorry folks - it's gotta be a POSTSCRIPT printer.

John