Re: horizontal alignment suggestions

2009-05-05 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 04.05.2009 um 23:03 schrieb Neil Puttock: 2009/5/3 Kieren MacMillan : There's likely a way to make a Scheme function which automatically \translate-s the text the correct amount, but I don't have time to investigate it. Since the instrument name conveniently makes up the negative part of

Re: horizontal alignment suggestions

2009-05-04 Thread Kieren MacMillan
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Re: horizontal alignment suggestions

2009-05-04 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/5/3 Kieren MacMillan : > There's likely a way to make a Scheme function which automatically > \translate-s the text the correct amount, but I don't have time to > investigate it. Since the instrument name conveniently makes up the negative part of the score markup's horizontal extent, the ea

Re: horizontal alignment suggestions

2009-05-03 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 03.05.2009 um 18:13 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi James, Perhaps it's just my inability to explain what I want. I'd like to have the two systems centered on the page, regardless of what the instrumentName is. Ah... well, the best I can do right now is this (manual) workaround: \version

Re: horizontal alignment suggestions

2009-05-03 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi James, Perhaps it's just my inability to explain what I want. I'd like to have the two systems centered on the page, regardless of what the instrumentName is. Ah... well, the best I can do right now is this (manual) workaround: \version "2.12.2" \paper { line-width = 8.5\in indent = 0 }

Re: horizontal alignment suggestions

2009-05-03 Thread James E. Bailey
Hi Kieren, Am 03.05.2009 um 14:47 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi James, Essentially, I'd like the instrumentName to not be calculated as part of the system width. I'm confused: when I try it, the instrumentName *isn't* calculated as part of the system width: Can you send an example of whe

Re: horizontal alignment suggestions

2009-05-03 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi James, Essentially, I'd like the instrumentName to not be calculated as part of the system width. I'm confused: when I try it, the instrumentName *isn't* calculated as part of the system width: \version "2.12.2" \paper { line-width = 5\in indent = 0 } music = \relative { \repeat "unfo

horizontal alignment suggestions

2009-05-03 Thread James E. Bailey
I'm having a difficult time figuring out a spacing puzzle. I'd like to have a series of systems centered in the middle of the page. That part isn't the problem. The problem comes when the system has an instrumentName set. The system is moved slightly to the right to accomodate the instrumen