lilypond inclusion + pdf crop

[andrea valle <valle@di.unito.it>]

>
> How did you get your LilyPond fragments?
> The only way I know would be to cut them from whole PDF pages with 
> Acrobat.

Ah, I understand the point.
Yes, in my new composition I create a graph connecting some musical 
fragment (I don't wanna bore yuo too much with these details). In any 
case, I use Context as general typesetting environment, Metafun as 
vectorial, scalable, scriptable drawing engine, and lilypond as 
notation generator.
The idea is to produce lily files, to render them, to include them in a 
metafun drawing, where I can clip and place them opportunely, and to 
render context files. My program is written in Python.

But, it's true, I got involved in the problem of cropping PDFs output 
by lily (from the a6 format I chose). I solved using externalfigure 
clip in metafun.
I tried Imagemagik: it crops the PDFs but it seems that it rasterizes 
the image.
So, what can one use to crop a pdf? Preview in macosx, as acrobat, does 
the job, but I'd prefer too to use something from the command line.

> But I'm only a newbie (and I don't really feel like learning Scheme).
I don't want, too. I'd like to have python :)

Here are two of the resulting scores (not totally finished yet)
www.semiotiche.it/andrea/membrana/nodi-I.pdf
www.semiotiche.it/andrea/membrana/nodi-II.pdf

and one of the context file
www.semiotiche.it/andrea/membrana/nodi-I.tex

Best

-a-

PS: ah, thanks to the list, without support I won't be able to draw a 
line...