Re: Help a newb: Formatting custom instrument names

2020-12-08 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi Leo, Am 07.12.20 um 23:36 schrieb Leo Correia de Verdier: I’m not sure if this is an interesting suggestion, but if you want this as the actual clef you could write %% \once \override Staff.Clef.stencil = #ly:text-interface::print \once \override Staff.Clef.text = \markup {

Re: Help a newb: Formatting custom instrument names

2020-12-08 Thread Michael Blankenship
Lukas and Leo, ​ ​Thanks for the response! I tried to frame the original question as simply as possible, so I left some things out that have now become relevant. One of the reasons I was trying to use instrument names is that I actually want to use a more extensive version of the "c

Re: Help a newb: Formatting custom instrument names

2020-12-08 Thread Michael Blankenship
FOLLOW UP: ​ ​I partially solved my own problem. I added the \columnClef statement to the layout block in "draw-staff-symbol.ily", on the line below \Staff. It works now, but another reasons I thought instrumentName would work better is that it's very hard to read the vowel clef whe

Re: Help a newb: Formatting custom instrument names

2020-12-08 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi Michael, Am 08.12.20 um 19:53 schrieb Michael Blankenship: ​​Thanks for the response! I tried to frame the original question as simply as possible, so I left some things out that have now become relevant. One of the reasons I was trying to use instrument names is that I actually want to us

Re: Help a newb: Formatting custom instrument names

2020-12-08 Thread Michael Blankenship
FOLLOW UP #2: ​ ​Added Lukas's code for instrument names to "draw-staff-symbols" and analogous statements to the layout block in that file. The columnClef code remains, but the layout statements are commented out. It's very close to being correct, but 3 issues that come to mind:

Re: Help a newb: Formatting custom instrument names

2020-12-08 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Lukas, Hi Michael, I think, going by this description, that maybe an InstrumentName is actually the simplest solution. In order to right-align the instrument names, try the attached diff (using git apply). It's basically a matter of - adding an \override InstrumentName.self-alignment-X =

Re: new compositions - typesetting - guitar

2020-12-08 Thread Tom Cloyd MS MA
Bart, I am a classic guitarist, and have composed and set (with Lily) approximately 50 pieces for guitar myself. I am delighted to see you offer your work for consideration. I will print it out and play through all of with real interest. I'd be happy to offer you feedback, although I have no