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+\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}
+
+\begin{document}
+\twocolumn
+
+\section{A latex file with two columns}
+
+In this example, the width auto-detection shall detect the two columns
+and produce snippets that have the smaller width for a column!
+
+\begin{lilypond}
+\score{
+ \relative c'{c d e f g a b c | c d e f g a b c | c d e f g a b c}
+}
+\end{lilypond}
+
+\end{document}