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

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Saturday, 20. August 2011, 06:25:26 schrieben Sie:
> Comment #41 on issue 1691 by percival.music.ca: Ugly bars in PDF documents
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1691
> 
> Trevor reminded us (by email) that lilypond automatically sets
> ragged-right=##t if the music is less than a full line.  This might be the
> behavior Reinhold was seeing.  If he was seeing it in a different context,
> then this sounds like another bug.  There's no reason why relative=1 should
> imply ragged-right.

No, it was not the implicit ragged setting for one-line snippets. Rather, the 
snippets' ly files have an exmplicit
  ragged-right=##t
inserted.

The issue is that the relative snippet option implies the fragment option, 
which seems to set the ragged-right=##t in all its snippets...

Attached is a simple example to show this, using three snippets with identical 
contents, but different snippet options. The first snippet will not have 
ragged-right, but the other two will get an explicit ragged-right=##t in the 
snippet's .ly file. While this behavior is indirectly explained in the AU, it 
does not really make sense from a user's standpoint that relative should 
automatically imply ragged-right (having "fragment" imply ragged-right makes 
sense to make it easier for documentation writers....)

This deserves a bug report on its own.


To be honest, the whole snippet option handling seems to be a real mess right 
now. I'll probably take a look at the whole snippet options handling system in 
lilypond-book during the next few days. Probably we can properly analyze each 
option's effects and make them more predictable (and correct).

Cheers,
Reinhold



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