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

[Patrick McCarty]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 03:26:42PM -0700, Patrick McCarty wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Trevor Daniels <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.

And here is a patch.

Thanks,
Patrick

0001-Docs-Shorten-line-lengths-for-a-snippet.patch
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