Re: Issue 1691 in lilypond: Ugly bars in PDF documents

[Trevor Daniels]

> QUOTE: r'''line-width = %(line-width)s - 2.0 * 
> %(exampleindent)s''',
>
> It's the value of exampleindent.  It seems that the rationale is 
> that if  you subtract 2* the indent from the linewidth, then you 
> get a usable  linewidth.  Given how close this is to correct, I 
> was concluding the it's  essentially a rounding error, so that we 
> should go with subtracting just  more than twice the indent from 
> the linewidth.

The factor 2 in this line was introduced by Jan
on 2004-03-20 in commit bdc3b32b8cdf1300d37fe9c4966e155979d2c766:

+ QUOTE : r'''
+    linewidth = %(linewidth)s - 2.0 * %(exampleindent)s
+''',

The commit comment says

   * Documentation/user/tutorial.itely: Use quote ly-option instead
   of explicit @quotation.  This fixes too long lilypond linewidths
   resulting in overful hboxes.

So I'm with Phil here.  Either Jan didn't quite get
the factor right, or something else has changed since
then.  Let's move to 2.05.  That's the only way to
see if it introduces any subtle problems.

It's a long time for Jan to remember, but I'll copy
him in in case he does.

Trevor



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