2009/5/20 Patrick McCarty <pnor...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Francisco Vila <paconet....@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I think instrument names were recently implemented in a centered >> column by default. I would like to help improving this because the >> exact location of every name is at first well computed but finally >> wrongly typeset, as the braces are not taken into account. Currently, >> names of staves or groups without a brace are typeset too much at the >> right, losing the centered aspect initially intended. > > Could you send some examples that illustrate the problem(s)?
Well, I'm surprised, I believed it was a very well-known issue. Compare, for example, the violas in these examples. haydn - scanned http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/3797/haydn.jpg haydn - lilypond http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/6978/haydnlilypond.png holst - scanned http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/5015/holst.jpg holst - lilypond http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/763/holstlilypond.png > The values for many of the paper variables are hardcoded in > ly/paper-defaults-init.ly. Other variables (line-width, indent, > short-indent) are calculated in terms of the paper size in > scm/paper.scm. Yes, the centered position of a name is computed from the indent value and a right-padding for it from there. I think it should be a left padding instead, to avoid this problem. The right padding is fine if you want the names to be right-aligned minus a padding, but this method is not suitable to achieve centered names. > It sounds like you want to see indent and short-indent automatically > adjust so that instrument names are always centered. Is this correct? Of course if they are supposed to be centered by default, I'd like them to be always well centered. I can live with a manually set indent value that is big enough, but even in this case the opening braces destroy the centered column of names. The key code is this. Given a (big) amount of time I could figure out how it works and try to improve it. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=blobdiff;f=lily/system-start-text.cc;h=c99f150fed;hp=494ab1;hb=b12cf254;hpb=4d0abb92 -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
