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

[Carl D. Sorensen]

On 5/25/09 4:43 PM, "Patrick McCarty" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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.


I tried to apply your patch, but I got the following:

sorensen2:lilypond-working Carl$ git am
0001-Docs-Shorten-line-lengths-for-a-snippet.patch
error: cannot read mbox 0001-Docs-Shorten-line-lengths-for-a-snippet.patch
error: cannot split patches from
0001-Docs-Shorten-line-lengths-for-a-snippet.patch

Then I checked out the file
0001-Docs-Shorten-line-lengths-for-a-snippet.patch
It was zero length.

Then I tried saving your email

[PATCH] Docs: Shorten line lengths for a snippet

to a file test.patch.  When I did that, it had MacOS line endings (I'm using
Entourage on the Mac for my email client)

So I copied the text, and cat it to a file.

cat > test2.patch

Now I have unix line endings, so I tried to apply.

Carl$ git am test2.patch
Patch does not have a valid e-mail address.


However the files are modified, so I can commit them  and push, but then it
will be my commit, not Patrick's.

So what am I doing wrong, or how should I do it different?

Thanks,

Carl