I would suggest tweaking the indents to take account of the instrument names,
but setting a warning "Indent adjusted to xx to accommodate instrument name".
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Phil Holmes
----- Original Message -----
From: David Nalesnik
To: tisimst
Cc: lilypond-user
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: can InstrumentName padding centered according to the
longestinstrument name?
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:04 AM, tisimst <tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com> wrote:
Fantastic work, David!
Appreciate that!
Definitely more involved code than you would expect, but very thoroughly
done, allowing for non-centered alignments even. This would make an excellent
addition to the core code, IMHO. Perhaps called "centered-name-column"?
What bugs me about it is the fact that so many steps are required for every
name and this amounts to a lot of repeated effort. For every name, we need to
calculate the ideal position of all names all over again. If there were some
way to cache the results of that calculation, do it once and then just look it
up, that would be great.
I wonder if a grouping grob which contains all the individual InstrumentName
grobs and handles their relative positioning would be a better way to go.
The only thing that I would further request (and this applies to
instrumentName in general) is that the indent variable automatically adjust
itself to be larger to compensate for names that run into the left margin (and
sometimes off the page entirely!). It just seems like the kind of thing that
should automatically happen, but maybe that's just me thinking out loud.
Yes, I've run into this--needing to tweak the indent to accommodate text that
goes off the left edge. Not sure what the best practice would be. After all,
you do want the numbers you set for indent and short-indent to exactly match
what you specify. Maybe there should simply be a warning?
David
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