Re: How to set line-width to width of paper

[Richard Shann]

On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 07:49 -0700, Eluze wrote:
> Richard Shann wrote
> > I have just started using
> > 
> > \override #'(line-width . n)
> > 
> > for text markup, and I want the value n to be chosen so as to work out
> > as the distance between the margins of the paper I'm printing on. As it
> > is it is in staff spacing units which is inconvenient (I am writing the
> > critical commentary at the end of the work).
> > 
> > Could someone point me in the right direction here?
> 
> in LSR the snippet http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=464 extracts the
> (layout-) line-width and uses it to calulate the width of the columns

That looks like very useful stuff for placing verses at the end of music
- thanks!

Richard

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