On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 03:47:42PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> writes:
>
> > I think this is a bit too far. Phil is trying to solve a
> > long-standing *extremely* annoying bug for documentation writers
> > which has not attracted much attention from "real" programmers.
>
> I can't actually help here since either problem description or what the
> patch is trying to achieve is utterly absent from the issue.
>
> <URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2703>
Right. Looking at the pdf output of this:
\version "2.13.3"
\new Staff \with {
instrumentName = "this is a really really long instrument name"
}{
c'
}
I only see "rument name" to the left of the staff; the rest runs
off the left-hand side of the pdf page. Printing text outside of
the page margins (let alone the page itself!) is bad.
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=766
Phil is trying to solve this by automatically increasing
\paper{ indent=5\cm} }
so that there's enough room to print the instrument name. (5cm
picked randomly; it's intended to be long enough to print "this is
a really really long instrument name")
Changing the indent is not necessarily the best solution (although
I can't think of anything better), nor is his approach necessarily
the best method of implementing it. But the bottom line is that
the above example produces a sucky pdf right now.
- Graham
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