Re: Can't Change Line Width

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi David,

> I have a template that I use for setting the weekly Psalm antiphons  
> - a single line melody with lyrics on letter size paper in  
> landscape mode.  It has always worked fine.
> Recently I upgraded Lilypond to 2.12 (on Windows).  Now the width  
> of the line is less than half the width of the page, causing the  
> layout to be crowded, horizontally.  It readable, but not easily.

I believe v2.12 was when the default changed for ragged-right on  
single-line scores -- to fix this issue, add the line

    ragged-right = ##f

to your \paper block.

Hope this helps!
Kieren.