Re: Some "Cheat cheet" nitpicks

[Graham Percival]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 05:26:28PM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > the table does not line up properly in the last column.  This is
> > because of additional white space _inside_ of the graphics (the
> > cursor box is on the first graphical image, so one can see that
> > indeed the graphics are responsible).
> 
> This is normal, AFAIK.  The lilypond-book option --left-padding
> controls this; if not given, a default value of 3mm is used.  Main
> reason to use have a non-zero default is to take care of bar numbers
> sticking out to the left.
> 
> It's debatable, however, whether we should have that in the lilypond
> documentation, given the vast amount of small snippets which consist
> of a single line only.

We have code that detects if the example is a single line; if so,
it adds ragged-right=##t.  That same piece of code could set
left-padding to 0.

No, I don't have a clue where this detection occurs; Joe added it
in reponse to documentation requests a few years ago.
Investigation and patches would be appreciated.  :)

Cheers,
- Graham