Re: settings for headwords

[Neil Puttock]

2008/7/17 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:18:06 +0100
> "Neil Puttock" <address@hidden> wrote:

>> The keyboard headword did have text in the margins, but that was only
>> because it was ragged.
>
> I'm not certain about that.  Is there any reason *not* to use the
> \layout settings which avoid ugly output?  If text lines would fit
> within the page anyway, then the settings only add half a second to
> the compile time; if the output *would* look bad, then those
> settings solve that problem.

Why add redundant \layout settings? None of the other snippets has
text spilling into the margins.

>> > - why remove the key signature and enable proportional notation in
>> >  the rhythm example?  That might be appropriate if this were some
>> >  20th century piece, but this is pure Beethoven.
>>
>> You mean the time signature? It's a personal thing, and I apologize
>> for not running it past you first, but it seems silly to have a time
>> signature present when the excerpt doesn't start at the beginning.
>
> Hmm.  The same could be said about any of these exerpts.  I'd
> rather keep the time signature in there.

Apart from the snippets which start at the beginning.

I'll reinstate the ones I've removed.

> Ok, could you update all the snippets to use the new \paper
> settings?

Will do, though I don't plan on removing ragged-right = ##t for the
remaining items.

Regards,
Neil