Re: Instrument Name Spacing

2006-05-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Please always tell what LilyPond version you use! I assume that you use version 2.8. It turns out that these instructions in the manual are obsolete. Instead, you could do \override InstrumentName #'padding = #2.0 in the Score context to get the same effect. I'll update the documentation. /Mats

Re: Instrument Name Spacing

2005-08-01 Thread Mats Bengtsson
dax2 wrote: I cannot get something like \set Staff.instrument = "Violoncello-baroque-longissimo" to print at all with 2.5.23. It prints with 2.4.5 but the length of lines are cut on the right margin, and the long-long-name is still cut on the left side. One possible solution is to split

Re: Instrument Name Spacing

2005-07-21 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Paul Scott wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: hi, 2.7.2 will have a \paper variable horizontaloffset, which shifts the music to the right, making place for the instrument names. As it happens, I had need for this myself just tonight. Would it be easy enough to extend that to alternating offs

Re: Instrument Name Spacing

2005-07-21 Thread dax2
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 03:05:13 +0200 Han-Wen wrote: > 2.7.2 will have a \paper variable horizontaloffset, which shifts the > music to the right, making place for the instrument names. As it > happens, I had need for this myself just tonight. > > Alternative: you can try > > \paper { > lin

Re: Instrument Name Spacing

2005-07-20 Thread Paul Scott
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: hi, 2.7.2 will have a \paper variable horizontaloffset, which shifts the music to the right, making place for the instrument names. As it happens, I had need for this myself just tonight. Would it be easy enough to extend that to alternating offset settings for odd

Re: Instrument Name Spacing

2005-07-20 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
hi, 2.7.2 will have a \paper variable horizontaloffset, which shifts the music to the right, making place for the instrument names. As it happens, I had need for this myself just tonight. Alternative: you can try \paper { linewidth = ..shorter length.. } Bryan Stanbridge wrote: Gree