On 02/08/2014 11:22 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
Hi David,
Hmm--do you think it should be added as an option to \fill-line?
DEFINITELY!
As just one example: I’m going to use it in the musical theatre scores I’m
engraving right now, to [evenly] space two columns of dialogue above a system
of underscore music.
But maybe it should be its own separate function, e.g., \spaced-line, or some
such thing?
Agreed. What about \equispaced-line?
The rationale for \fill-line IMHO is only to be used for one, two or
three arguments, which is the common case in headings. One for
center-aligned (which should be available as \center-line on it's
own...), two for left-right-aligned, three for
left-center-right-aligned. That's it. Everything else gives highly
unintuitive results. It's the analogue of one of the rare features I
miss in OpenOffice vs. Word: In the latter, you can specify the
horizontal alignment for groups of words in a single line, separated by
tabs.
\fill-line might not be the best name for that, but it's late to change
it. (\equicentered-line? Leftmost and rightmost element don't fit in,
though...) And it's description is really bad, now that I read it again...
BTW, I'd like to see collision avoidance there (and there should be a
comment in the code on what's necessary), but probably it's overkill for
what it's used for.
On the other hand, especially for two-column-dialogues or verses, I
always end up to use manually spaced columns: I want a consistent
column separation, I (usually) want columns of consistent width, and I
(usually) want the columns to start at the same horizontal position. At
least if you have several of those places. Then, it's almost no
difference whether you use \spaced-line (\equispaced-line?) or simply a
\fill-line (as \center-line) of $stuff to autocalculate left and right
margin.
Best,
Alexander
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