Re: LM 2.4.1: errors in variable definitions

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno dom 17 lug 2016 alle 11:44, David Kastrup <address@hidden> ha 
scritto:
> >  Of course, but this is the standard \paper property and the whole
> >  point of the example in the documentation is defining variables.
> >
> >  We may omit the unit and use the default one (millimeters). But I
> >  wonder if this is a bug or there's a better way to define such a
> >  variable.
>
> I thought the default unit was staff spaces?  Don't quote me on that 
> but
> I thought that the main mess was that the definition of \cm changed 
> when
> one changed the default staff size.

Perhaps the default unit of \paper properties is millimeters? That 
would make sense. While staff spaces make sense for elements of the 
notation.

I just made a test. A 208 line-width spans almost all the 210x210 
document:

\version "2.19.45"

width = 208
stringName = "Wendy"
aFivePaper = \paper { paper-height = 210 }

\paper {
 \aFivePaper
 line-width = \width
 ragged-last = ##f
 indent = 0
}

{
 c4^\stringName
}