Comment #9 on issue 1015 by percival.music.ca: doc line width http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1015
Oops, my fault. I picked a random .ly compiled bit to look at, but I evidently ended up with one without quote. I didn't do enough investigation.
python/book_snippets.py defines exampleindent (also used for [quote]) as 0.4\in. My guess is that they thought that it would look better if *both* sides of the image were indented, so that a "full-width" image would still be centered on the page. (I quite agree with that decision)
If I'm correct about this, I'd propose changing the 0.4in into 10mm (just for consistency in units). This gives us 137mm for music, pending some uncertainty about the "3mm for bar numbers" question. (I'd rather have the page width specified as 160mm-2*(quote_length) = 140mm, then let lilypond figure out how much space it should use for the staff, and how much space it should use for bar numbers and instrument names... but this would require some programming work)
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