Re: lilypond-book: warning: cannot detect textwidth from LaTeX

[Marcos Press]

You hit one spot :)

I'm trying to put examples in multicolumn. Which I resolve in doing two thing.

Ono is to put the example in the three columns.
The other is to end the table, put the example centered and then start the table again.
A time ago I been trying the \multicolumn command but I couldn't remember why I couldn't use it :)

About my orginal question, Marc answer was the reason I keep getting that warning.

2013/10/25 Urs Liska <address@hidden>

Am 25.10.2013 15:45, schrieb Marcos Press:

Hi all!

Every time I run lilypond-book I have the same first three lines:

####
Running `pdflatex' on file `/tmp/tmpk95zdA.tex' to detect default page settings.

lilypond-book: warning: Unable to auto-detect default settings:

lilypond-book: warning: cannot detect textwidth from LaTeX
####

Then, it ends up rendering the hole thing completly, nearly without problem except my ouns wich are allways there. :)

Is there any way to solve these auto-detection?

If not, how can I tell lilypond-book the textwidth of my tex file? And how can I know it?

I don't know.
But this is one of the reasons I *want* to improve my musicexamples package. When all this isn't run from an external Python script but from within the running latex it is of course possible to detect the textwidth. It's even possible to access the _currently_ active textwidth. For example if you want to place examples in multicolumn text.

In general it says lilypond-book will _try_ to guess the correct width but will fail in some circumstances.

For determining the textwidth manually maybe this will help you: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1168551/printing-out-latex-variables

HTH
Urs

Thanks!

Marcos

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