Re: Instrument Name Not Appearing

2017-12-03 Thread SoundsFromSound
Robin Bannister-2 wrote > SoundsFromSound wrote: > >> I'd like to move it down a bit so it's centered with the middle staff >> line, >> like the other names are. Is this possible? > > That's the start of the fine tuning. Try: > > > > addOssiaName = > #(define-scheme-function (name padding)

Re: Instrument Name Not Appearing

2017-12-03 Thread Robin Bannister
SoundsFromSound wrote: I'd like to move it down a bit so it's centered with the middle staff line, like the other names are. Is this possible? That's the start of the fine tuning. Try: addOssiaName = #(define-scheme-function (name padding) (markup? number?) (let ((adapted

Re: Instrument Name Not Appearing

2017-12-02 Thread SoundsFromSound
Robin Bannister-2 wrote > Well, in 2009 Neil Puttock said you can't, and said why. > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-03/msg00123.html > If that still applies, you will need a workaround. > > The X-offset workaround suggested there seems very fragile. > > So here is a hack

Re: Instrument Name Not Appearing

2017-12-02 Thread Thomas Morley
2017-12-02 21:41 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup : > Thomas Morley writes: > >> The stencil-procedure for InstrumentName, system-start-text::print, >> explecitely disallows printing an InstrumentName in the middle of a >> system. >> No clue about the reasoning. > >

Re: Instrument Name Not Appearing

2017-12-02 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > The stencil-procedure for InstrumentName, system-start-text::print, > explecitely disallows printing an InstrumentName in the middle of a > system. > No clue about the reasoning. Well, otherwise an InstrumentName would appear everywhere,

Re: Instrument Name Not Appearing

2017-12-02 Thread Robin Bannister
SoundsFromSound wrote: ... how I can get the "Violin" instrument name to show up next to the topmost staff? Well, in 2009 Neil Puttock said you can't, and said why. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-03/msg00123.html If that still applies, you will need a workaround. The

Re: Instrument Name Not Appearing

2017-12-02 Thread Thomas Morley
2017-12-02 17:38 GMT+01:00 SoundsFromSound : > Hello list, > > I am trying to get an instrument name to show beside a staff that begins in > the middle of a passage, but I'm not having success. I've attached a > screenshot, here is the code that shows my question: > >

Instrument Name Not Appearing

2017-12-02 Thread SoundsFromSound
Hello list, I am trying to get an instrument name to show beside a staff that begins in the middle of a passage, but I'm not having success. I've attached a screenshot, here is the code that shows my question: \version "2.19.80" \score { << \new Staff = "Testing" \with {