Many thanks, Thies Your suggestion works perfectly for left-aligning instrument names, and it is certainly simpler than my best effort! With hspace 1 or 2 larger than the longest name and 1 larger again for staves which are outside any bracket or brace the left alignment (for the default font at least) is almost perfect.
Trevor > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+t.daniels=treda.co.u > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Thies Albrecht > Sent: 24 October 2006 22:34 > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Aligning instrument names > > > Hi Trevor! > > > This is somewhat arcane - anyone found a better way? > > > > \set Staff.instrument=\markup { > > \override #'(baseline-skip . 0) > > \left-align { \column { \transparent > AAAAAAAAA Solo } } > > } > Here's what I do (I hope I'll remember correctly > as I can't find a file containing it right now): > > \set Staff.instrument = \markup { > \combine > \hspace #5.0 > "My Instrument" > } > > You can easily adjust the space by changing 5.0. > > Kind regards, > Thies Albrecht > -- > Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer > Onlinekosten zu sparen! > Ideal für Modem und ISDN: > http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
