Re: Line lengths in NR [was Petrucci-like spacing?]

[Patrick McCarty]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Trevor Daniels <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Mats Bengtsson wrote Monday, May 25, 2009 8:03 PM
>
>> Henning Plumeyer wrote:
>>>
>>>> \relative c'' {
>>>>  \key f \major g1*1/4 bes1*1/4 a1*1/4 g1*1/4 d'1.*1/6 c4 bes4 c1*1/4
>>>> }
>>>
>>> Hi, Carl,
>>> could you explain why this works? I would have expected that g1*1/4 is
>>> exactly the same as g4, but it is obviously not.
>>
>> It looks like a whole note but has the duration of a quarter note, when
>> LilyPond determines the spacing. If you don't want to add "*1/4" for every
>> single note, there is a command \scaleDurations to apply this kind of
>> scaling for a whole section of music. All this is well described in
>> Subsection "Scaling durations" in "1.2.1 Writing Rhythms" in the Notation
>> Reference.
>
> The lines in the html version of this section of the
> Notation Reference are significantly longer than any
> other, so long I have to scroll horizontally to read them.
>
> Does anyone else see this, or is it some subtle problem
> with IE?

IIRC, if the line lengths for any <pre> section are too wide, IE
recalculates the width of the div to accomodate the longest line on
the page.  Other browsers don't behave this way (as far as I
remember).

I suspect the snippet "Non-default tuplet numbers" in the Tuplets
section is the culprit.  If the values of #'text are moved to separate
lines, that should solve the problem.

-Patrick