Re: Is \paper{} needed?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> On Monday 23 February 2004 11.59, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > address@hidden writes:
> > > The manual says that \paper{} is required and several examples have an
> > > empty \paper{}, but this doesn't seem (from experience) to be true in
> > > 2.1.25 any more. Is this the manual being out of date, or LilyPond being
> > > over-lenient?
> >
> > The default is to supply a \paper{} declaration if no output (paper,
> > midi) is specified. Perhaps this default should be changed?
> >
> > Any objections?
> 
> AFAIK, the current default has been there a loong time (it was there 2 year 
> ago when I first met lily).
> 
> For me, it is a good default.. it has the benefit is that it saves 8 
> characters when I write short tests.

Funny.

I always have to add

 \paper{  raggedright = ##t }

for short tests anyway. Maybe that's a sensible solution? Having
\paper{}/\midi{} correspond to \paper { raggedright = ##t } ?

 

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