Hi, I have a few questions related to score preparation.
I’m putting time signatures above a score using— https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/90732/display-time-signature-as-single-number-above-the-staff#answer-90737 <https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/90732/display-time-signature-as-single-number-above-the-staff#answer-90737> —which is based on https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=272 <https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=272>. I’ve noticed two issues with this. First, the above-score time signatures are usually centered over bar lines, but not when a measure is preceded by a clef change. In this case, time signatures seem to be placed before the new clef rather than centered over the following bar line. Second, when a new time signature occurs at the end of a page, it seems to be centered on the right margin. In the case of compound meters, this can cause the time signature to extend off the page. I’ve tried setting break-align-orders (https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/internals/break_002dalignment_002dinterface <https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/internals/break_002dalignment_002dinterface>) and space-alist to fix this (https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/internals/timesignature <https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/internals/timesignature>), but nothing seems to have an effect. I’m also trying to set up a score more-or-less as shown on p. 509 of Elaine Gould’s Behind Bars, using— https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/snippets/text#text-aligning-and-centering-instrument-names <https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/snippets/text#text-aligning-and-centering-instrument-names> —as a starting point. If I set both short-indent and left-margin to 0.5 in., I can align short instrument names to the left margin using a \fill-line with a width of 6.75. My question is: is there a better way to do this? Hard-coding an arbitrary width of 6.75 (staff spaces?) seems less than ideal. Here is a much-reduced example showing what I’m doing: \version "2.23.80" time-signatures = { \time 2/4 s2 | \noBreak \time 3/4 % This time signature is not centered over the bar line. s2. | \noBreak \time 4/4 s1 | \pageBreak \compoundMeter #'((1 1 3 4)) % This time signature extends too far into the right margin. s1*5/4 | } \layout { \numericTimeSignature \context { \Staff \override InstrumentName.self-alignment-X = #RIGHT } } \paper { short-indent = 0.5\in left-margin = 0.5\in } \score { << \new Dynamics \with { \consists Time_signature_engraver \override TimeSignature.after-line-breaking = #shift-right-at-line-begin \override TimeSignature.break-align-symbol = ##f \override TimeSignature.font-size = #5 \override TimeSignature.self-alignment-X = #CENTER \override TimeSignature.X-offset = #ly:self-alignment-interface::x-aligned-on-self } { \time-signatures } \new Staff \with { instrumentName = "Instruments" shortInstrumentName = \markup { \override #'(baseline-skip . 2.5) \override #'(line-width . 6.75) % Is there a better way to determine the line width? \fill-line { \lower #1.25 "Ins." \right-column { "1" "2" } } } } \relative { \clef "bass" c16 d e f g a b c | \clef "treble" c16 d e f g a b c d e f g | c,,16 d e f g a b c d e f g a b c d | c,,16 d e f g a b c d e f g a b c d e f g a | } >> }
