Re: centralising markups above notes

2021-04-09 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi Jean, On 09/04/2021 15:36, Jean Abou Samra wrote: What you are doing is more or less the proper way. Objects have two parameters for alignment because it should depend on both the extents of the aligned object and its parent. This was briefly discussed in this recent thread:

Re: centralising markups above notes

2021-04-09 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 09/04/2021 à 13:59, Gilberto Agostinho a écrit : Hi David, On 09/04/2021 12:32, David Kastrup wrote: Where does the documentation suggest that \center-align (and similar) does anything to a single item?  It aligns the things passed to it, not their outside. See the Text alignment section

Re: centralising markups above notes

2021-04-09 Thread Robin Bannister
Gilberto Agostinho wrote: The solution I found [...] seems very hacky to me as it's mixing two things (\center-align and parent-alignment-x) for the alignment. My take on this: it is not 'mixing' but rather 'combining' two things. You get more useful combinations with less headaches. See the

Re: centralising markups above notes

2021-04-09 Thread David Kastrup
Please keep the list copied. Gilberto Agostinho writes: > Hi David, > > On 09/04/2021 12:32, David Kastrup wrote: >> Where does the documentation suggest that \center-align (and similar) >> does anything to a single item? It aligns the things passed to it, not >> their outside. > > See the

Re: centralising markups above notes

2021-04-09 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi David, On 09/04/2021 12:32, David Kastrup wrote: Where does the documentation suggest that \center-align (and similar) does anything to a single item?  It aligns the things passed to it, not their outside. See the Text alignment section in

Re: centralising markups above notes

2021-04-09 Thread David Kastrup
Gilberto Agostinho writes: > Hi everyone, > > I'm trying to add centred string numbers to some notes in my > composition using markup. Using only \center-align as the > documentation suggests does not seem to do the trick, as the text is > still not centralised. Where does the documentation

centralising markups above notes

2021-04-09 Thread Gilberto Agostinho
Hi everyone, I'm trying to add centred string numbers to some notes in my composition using markup. Using only \center-align as the documentation suggests does not seem to do the trick, as the text is still not centralised. I am only able to get them properly centred when I set