Proposal: Automatically adjusting indents for instrument names

2021-02-13 Thread Johannes Feulner
Hi there, for programatically produced scores I've found it to be a nuisance that indents for somewhat longer instrument names had to be tuned by hand. And I guess LilyPond beginners will wonder why in the face of so much perfection longer instrument names simply get cut off. I 'd like to pr

\inStaffSegno

2021-02-13 Thread Dan Eble
Is anyone here an expert on the requirements for \inStaffSegno? I'm wondering whether the current implementation is perfect insofar as there is always a double stroke through it. Gould doesn't discuss the in-staff form of segno, but she discusses the mark form and recommends doubling the accom

Re: Proposal: Automatically adjusting indents for instrument names

2021-02-13 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi Johannes, I 'd like to propose the enhancement below to LilyPond. It will increase the indent and short-indent of a score to fit all of its instrument names and instrument short names. This is a great idea (and a feature I've been missing for quite some time). In the current version, subs