David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> writes:

> Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 07:00:27PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>>> Reinhold Kainhofer <reinh...@kainhofer.com> writes:
>>> 
>>> > However, even for HTML we need some kind of line width so that we can
>>> > line-break all lilypond snippets.
>>> 
>>> That line width should be based on a pixel width (1024 is probably
>>> reasonably).  It is nonsensical to have it based on a paper size.
>>
>> We want the line widths to look the same in the HTML as in the
>> pdfs.
>
> Why?
>
>> Also, we don't want to insist that people use a full-screen window
>> with at least 1024 pixels -- or rather, given the left-hand navbar,
>> that would require at least a full-screen window at 1280 pixels or so.
>
> So make a different HTML-related decision.
>
>>> If lilypond-book calls texi2pdf in the course of generating HTML,
>>> that is a bug.
>>
>> No, that is correct and working as desired.
>
> Why would that be desirable?  Why should the HTML documentation be made
> to look different on a system with a different paper width setting for
> PDF?
>
> That does not make sense.

Or why should the HTML documentation suddenly be formatted differently
once a GNU/Linux user chooses to install TeX for some reason?

-- 
David Kastrup


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