On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 8:47 AM, David Nalesnik <david.nales...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Kieren,
>
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Kieren MacMillan <
> kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> > Try the attached out.  It will only center an object if the contents of
>> all staves can reasonably be centered.
>>
>> So far, I would call that "perfect”!  =)
>>
>
> oh, it will be broken!
>
> Anyway, I'm a little unsure of the procedure for determining whether an
> object is alone in its measure.  There's a C++ procedure that determines
> this and maybe that ought to be made accessible from Scheme.
>
> [...]
>
>
>> Any reason why this can’t be submitted as a patch?
>
>
>
> What bugs me is that the centering is done after measure-widths have been
> determined.  I would imagine that in most cases this routine will end up
> moving objects to the right.  When it does, that is infringing on what
> LilyPond has decided is an appropriate space between the objects in our
> column and the column holding the barline (and whatever else).  I would
> think that a good algorithm would ensure that the space after our objects
> would be increased, to match the space before.
>
>
Err...I think I mean the space *before* should be increased.  In any case
neither space before or after should fall below a minimum,
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