Re: settings for headwords

[Neil Puttock]

2008/7/16 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> Hi Neil,
>
> Why did you modify the \paper{} and \layout{} settings for the
> headwords?

If you remember, I said I thought some of the headwords would look
better without ragged-right = ##t; it only works if the recommended
line-width (16 cm) is used.

> - the \layout settings are necessary to avoid text going into the
>  margins; they were taken directly from LM x.y.z Avoiding tweaks
>  with slower processing.

The keyboard headword did have text in the margins, but that was only
because it was ragged.

> - 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.

I didn't enable propotional notation; it's Trevor's tweak to improve
the spacing.

> - I'd like all headwords to use the same settings.  If you think
>  that 16cm is better than 17cm (maybe the pdf looks bad with
>  17cm; I can't remember if I checked), then please change it for
>  *all* headwords.

16cm is a prerequisite for pdf if ragged-right = ##f, otherwise some
of the snippets run off the right hand side.

>
> I'm quite willing to have you change any things in the headwords,
> but I'm not certain if you've considered all these issues.

Well, I didn't blindly change things without checking both the html
and pdf output first.

Regards,
Neil