Jonathan Kulp wrote:
Before I make a bunch of replacements and a patch, can anyone see a
potential problem with changing the example in LM 5.1.5 to use these
functions instead:
%%%%%%
mpdolce = #(make-dynamic-script (markup #:hspace 1 #:translate (cons 5 0)
#:line(#:dynamic "mp" #:text #:italic "dolce" )))
It seems that the above line is copied from the current documentation
but it seems a bit weird:
- I don't understand why we need the #:hspace 1 (there are some similar
examples in the NR, but they use #:hspace 0, which makes somewhat more
sense.
- Using #:translate is in my opinion just a silly way of fooling the
default implementation that automatically gives centered alignment of
the full markup. I know that this issue has been discussed in length
several times and I haven't had the time to follow all the arguments,
but my intuitive idea of how to solve the problem is rather to turn of
the automatic centering set the alignment point explicitly both for the
predefined dynamics and for user defined ones.
- Is there any good reason to use (cons 5 0) instead of '(5 . 0)? The
latter is the syntax used for most other settings in the documentation
where the value is a pair, but for some reason the person who first
documented the \translate markup command choose to use cons instead and
this habit has been copied all over the manual.
/Mats
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