Re: Some "Cheat cheet" nitpicks

[Graham Percival]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> The best solution is probably to add a new command line option
>>> `--default-left-padding' to lilypond-book (which is then used in
>>> the Makefile with value 0mm to override the default setting of
>>> 3mm), and adding a snippet option `left-padding' to the lilypond
>>> environments (within lilypond-book) to override the default left
>>> padding if necessary.
>>
>> No.  We're not adding that option to 90% of the snippets in the
>> docs.  It can't be done automatically, and it's way too much work to
>> do it manually.
>
> ???  I've just suggested the `--default-left-padding' option to
> exactly avoid that!  Ideally, we would simply change the default value
> of lilypond-book's `--left-padding' option to 0mm, but this breaks
> backwards compatibility.  Thus my suggestion to have a means to
> control the default value instead.

If the makefile sets it to 0mm, then what happens for longer examples
with bar numbers?  Presumably somebody needs to go through all the
docs to find multi-line examples, then add
   [left-padding=3mm]
to those examples.

This is too much work for not enough payoff.  Especially since (I
think) a one-line patch to the C file that Sven identified would
render this work unnecessary.

Cheers,
- Graham