Re: Issue 1691 in lilypond: Ugly bars in PDF documents

[lilypond]

Comment #31 on issue 1691 by address@hidden: Ugly bars in PDF  
documents
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1691

The 0.4\in comes from this:

QUOTE: r'''line-width = %(line-width)s - 2.0 * %(exampleindent)s''',

It's the value of exampleindent.  It seems that the rationale is that if  
you subtract 2* the indent from the linewidth, then you get a usable  
linewidth.  Given how close this is to correct, I was concluding the it's  
essentially a rounding error, so that we should go with subtracting just  
more than twice the indent from the linewidth.

I've attached my line length test file, together with the resulting output,  
having reverted my update changing 2.0 to 2.05.  As you see, you get black  
bars for 2 perfectly reasonable bits of -book syntax.  I believe this is a  
bug in -book - it seems to me that, for music which wraps to more than one  
system, -book will never produce acceptable output.  As you say, that's  
another bug.

This one is about the bars in _our_ docs.  We/I now know how to take them  
out, and in the situation where users adopt the [quote] option, how to help  
users.  Please comment, but I am pretty convinced that the change I'm  
suggesting will improve our docs and -book generally.

Attachments:
        LineLength.tely  740 bytes
        LineLength.pdf  168 KB