Re: [Denemo-devel] Indentation Bug

[Richard Shann]

On Sun, 2016-10-02 at 14:41 +0100, Robert Murdoch wrote:
> I thought I wasn't wording it properly. Sorry, I'm using 2.0.12.
> 
> In LilyPond, you can add a "short-indent" command to the \paper block. 
> "short-indent" indents all systems except the first one, the systems 
> that are usually marked with abbreviations of instrument names in 
> engraving e.g. "Pno.", as "indent" indents the first system.
> 
> I typed "short-indent = X" into the prefix box after right-clicking the 
> indent button above the score.

That's interesting - you have evidently got the "Advanced" or low-level
edit of the directive to come up. It doesn't do this on my system, but
IIRC it should do. The definitive way of getting this low-level editor
up is to go to the Score Properties Editor, find the Indent directive
and click "Advanced"

When I do this I see this in the prefix field:

\layout {indent = 50}

interestingly this is in a \layout block not a \paper block.

You are going about things the right way to edit this, e.g.
\layout {indent = 50 short-indent = 20 }
could well be good. Or perhaps replace the entire field with 
\paper  {indent = 50 short-indent = 20 }

What you *must* then do is look in the View->LilyPond window where,
towards the bottom you will see the syntax being emitted (or
File->Export->Export Lilypond and open up the file with Frescobaldi).

Only then can you start asking, is this the right thing to do - a
question you will easily solve with the LilyPond docs or the
lilypond-user mailing list.

If you do find some useful syntax, please share it here. It will be easy
to add it as a command to Denemo (e.g. the Indent command could ask for
a second value for the short-indent field).

HTH

Richard,
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> 
> On 02/10/2016 13:59, Richard Shann wrote:
> > On Sun, 2016-10-02 at 13:39 +0100, Robert Murdoch wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I think I have found another bug. After inserting the indentation
> >> through Score → Typesetter → Print Layout → Indent, I right-click on the
> >> indent box above the score (I don't know what else to call it) and add
> >> "short-indent = X" (X being a number).
> > What version of Denemo are you using?
> > What is "short-indent" ???
> > The indent command does create a button in the title bar, left-clicking
> > it is a quick way of re-running the indent command. That command just
> > takes a number, not any text about short-indent...
> >
> > puzzled ...
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
> >
> >> It seems to work the first time, but if I want to change either the
> >> indentation or short indentation after the initial setting, nothing
> >> happens on the preview page.
> >>
> >> I'm sorry if this sounds confusing.
> >>
> >>
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