David,
On 2/24/14 4:54 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
Guy Stalnaker <jimmyg...@gmail.com> writes:
-1 = #LEFT means align (the reference point) to the left border of the
text, 1 = #RIGHT means align to the right border of the text, 0 =
#CENTER means align to the center of the text.
#-5 extrapolates, so it puts the reference point two times the length of
the text (#RIGHT - #LEFT = 2) to the left of the text.
Ah! Reference point of the TEXT not the LINE! So it does indeed make
sense that a four-character word will move approximately the distance
expected with #-5 #-10, etc. while a seven-word phrase will disappear
with #-10. Got it. Thank you.
I'd probably rather use something like
\line { \hspace ... ... }
or \translate #'(... . ...) ...
myself. Then you can directly work with units of spacing rather than
jiggling with alignments.
I would swear that I tried that. Which means, again, I'm not doing it
right, especially if YOU say this :-)
So ... what is the correct syntax for \hspace (since it is obvious I
don't know what I'm doing with \halign either)? In the example snippets
\hspace does position text, but in every example that I read it is used
to position the second or third text of the example, never the first:
<code>
\markup {
default text font size
\hspace #2
\abs-fontsize #16 { text font size 16 }
\hspace #2
\abs-fontsize #12 { text font size 12 }
</code>
Should it work like this, too:
<code>
\markup {
\hspace #2
default text font size
\hspace #2
\abs-fontsize #16 { text font size 16 }
\hspace #2
\abs-fontsize #12 { text font size 12 }
</code>
Thank you, again.
--
Guy Stalnaker
jimmyg...@gmail.com
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