Hello, I’ve been wondering just now: Wouldn’t it be possible to use the break-align- symbol mechanism to allow for dynamic indents? Take this as example:
<<
\new Staff \with { instrumentName = "ins" } {
\override Score.BreakAlignment.break-align-orders =
#(make-vector 3 '(cue-end-clef
ambitus
breathing-sign
time-signature
clef
cue-clef
staff-bar
key-cancellation
key-signature
custos
left-edge))
\key cis\major
c'
}
\new Staff { c' }
>>
<<
\new Staff \with { instrumentName = "ins" } {
\key cis\major
c'
}
\new Staff { c' }
>>
So clearly the break alignment interface would allow placing things before the
left edge. Of course the staff symbol stencil would need to be adjusted to take
this into account and not start early, but say if we did not place left edge
in a fixed location, but say we had a technical left edge (start of line) and a
staff left edge (start of staff). Then it should be possible to place things
like instrument names as break aligned grobs either before the technical left
edge for current behaviour, but also between technical left edge and staff left
edge. This way the start of the staff should dynamically depend on the
instrument name, and using space-alist we could still have an indent as
minimum space between the left edges.
This should also mean that instrument names could become much more accessible.
Cheers,
Valentin
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