Re: can InstrumentName padding centered according to the longest instrument name?

[David Nalesnik]

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi David (et al.),

> Not sure what the best practice would be. After all, you do want the numbers you set for indent and short-indent to exactly match what you specify.

It depends on how you define “indent” and “short-indent”… or “margin”…  ;)

All kidding aside:

1. Perhaps there could be a switch — acting a bit like PaperColumn.keep-inside-line, but built like RehearsalMark.break-align-symbols — which would determine those grobs that cannot pass the page margins? For example, I might want short-indent fixed to the margin and InstrumentNames added post-hoc (i.e., the current default), or I might want InstrumentNames added first and [short-]indent calculated post-hoc; I might want any TextScript or RehearsalMark (etc.) dangling [and possibly running off the page, as InstrumentName currently does], or RehearsalMark might form the left-most “printed edge” sitting flush against the margin.

It might not (might not) be so hard to allow margins reckoned to the left edge of long/short instrument name. It wouldn't be hard to add a warning to the X-offset callback: "instrument name exceeds margin by ... staff-spaces" and let the user fix it..

More than that and I wouldn't know where to begin.

David