Re: Doc music examples should be on 1 line

[Graham Percival]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 08:02:11PM +0100, John Mandereau wrote:
> Il giorno mar, 16/02/2010 alle 15.23 +0000, Trevor Daniels ha scritto: 
> > The change seems to have started after commit
> > c258b7788db8a717b4741f02d9f5cc52862338d4
> > which was applied by John on Christmas Eve.
> > As part of his tidying up, the option list is
> > sorted in line 1236, which places the line-width
> > lines in a different order, and causes the default
> > to be applied after the override, rendering the
> > override ineffective.  I'll push a fix to comment
> > out the sort for now, until John can check this
> > out more carefully.
> 
> Unless the docs output caused by this issue is unbearable

It's not.  I'm perfectly happy releasing 2.14 with this.

> even during the two days it may take me to fix it from now,
> please don't commit this so-called fix.

I'm also unhappy with this fix, although for completely different
reasons.  There's no good reason to increase the line-width.
1) if the larger line-width looks good on all output, then it
should be the default.
2) if it doesn't work on *all* outputs... HTML, info, pdf, pdf
printed on A4, pdf printed on USletter, HTML on a screen with 800
pixels wide... then the music should be changed to fit the
available space.


A thorough examination of the lilypond-book paper options for the
docs would be a bit more work than I think we want to do at the
moment.  I've added it as issue 1015.

Cheers,
- Graham