Re: Issue 1015 in lilypond: doc line width

[lilypond]

Comment #12 on issue 1015 by address@hidden: doc line width
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1015

Just some information/thoughts to add to this.

In the CG it states

• Inspirational headwords are produced with:
@lilypondfile[quote,ragged-right,line-width=16\cm,staffsize=16]
{pitches-headword.ly}

• LSR snippets are linked with:
@lilypondfile[verbatim,lilyquote,ragged-right,texidoc,doctitle]
{filename.ly}

Now with regard to http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1691  
(Ugly bars in PDF), it seems from some experimenting that, instrument names  
aside, putting 'line-width=15.5\cm,' or less helps remove the ugly bars  
that occur on standard LP examples that are not ragged right (because they  
usually go over more than one line) good examples are in the Learning  
Manual (i.e. 2.3.2 Aligning lyrics to a melody).

By explicitly putting line-width=15.5\cm (or less), this removes the bars  
but seems to be not too small to preserve the layout of the staff lines.

Until this issue is solved (or unless we adopt something like adding a  
line-width to the @lilypond[..] variables, then I cannot see how we can  
reconcile 1691 where most difficulty is going to come in this area (esp  
with LM and snippets in the NR).

I didn't try 15.6\cm as I figured if we went this route we'd want to keep a  
reasonably round-ish number.