Re: lilypond-book on windows

[David Kastrup]

Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 07:00:27PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Reinhold Kainhofer <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > However, even for HTML we need some kind of line width so that we can
>> > line-break all lilypond snippets.
>> 
>> That line width should be based on a pixel width (1024 is probably
>> reasonably).  It is nonsensical to have it based on a paper size.
>
> We want the line widths to look the same in the HTML as in the
> pdfs.

Why?

> Also, we don't want to insist that people use a full-screen window
> with at least 1024 pixels -- or rather, given the left-hand navbar,
> that would require at least a full-screen window at 1280 pixels or so.

So make a different HTML-related decision.

>> If lilypond-book calls texi2pdf in the course of generating HTML,
>> that is a bug.
>
> No, that is correct and working as desired.

Why would that be desirable?  Why should the HTML documentation be made
to look different on a system with a different paper width setting for
PDF?

That does not make sense.

-- 
David Kastrup