Re: can InstrumentName padding centered according to the longest instrument name?

2015-05-15 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi all, I've attached an improved version of the file here. It now handles single-staff situations (as when, for example, you remove non-active staves using \RemoveEmptyStaves), and it deals properly with name placement when a name relates to a grouping of staves (a piano part, for example).

Re: can InstrumentName padding centered according to the longest instrument name?

2015-05-15 Thread David Nalesnik
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:06 AM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: One problem that Kieren noticed is evident in the last example When the padding is set to 0, all names are as far right as they can go and still be properly aligned one to another. When, however, the padding is

Re: can InstrumentName padding centered according to the longest instrument name?

2015-05-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, First of all, many [public] thanks for having done this work: it’s remarkable, and extremely helpful to me. q.v. On Wednesday night, I was out for a drink with a musician friend, who “admires” me because I use Lilypond instead of Finale or Sibelius. I used this exact feature/fix as

Re: [OT] can InstrumentName padding centered according to the longest instrument name?

2015-05-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs, When I used Finale, I was dissatisfied with a lot Who wasn’t (or, poor souls, isn’t currently)? ;) The editors of the last big composers (print) edition, who are just happy that it is so easy to drag stuff where they want to see it … Being happy about that (and potentially many

Re: [OT] Re: can InstrumentName padding centered according to the longest instrument name?

2015-05-15 Thread David Nalesnik
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Am 15.05.2015 um 16:52 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi David, When I used Finale, I was dissatisfied with a lot Who wasn’t (or, poor souls, isn’t currently)? ;) The editors of the last big composers (print)

Re: [OT] Re: can InstrumentName padding centered according to the longest instrument name?

2015-05-15 Thread Urs Liska
Am 15.05.2015 um 17:15 schrieb David Nalesnik: On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org mailto:u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Am 15.05.2015 um 16:52 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi David, When I used Finale, I was dissatisfied with a lot

Re: [OT] Re: can InstrumentName padding centered according to the longest instrument name?

2015-05-15 Thread Urs Liska
Am 15.05.2015 um 16:52 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi David, When I used Finale, I was dissatisfied with a lot Who wasn’t (or, poor souls, isn’t currently)? ;) The editors of the last big composers (print) edition, who are just happy that it is so easy to drag stuff where they want to see

[OT] Re: can InstrumentName padding centered according to the longest instrument name?

2015-05-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, When I used Finale, I was dissatisfied with a lot Who wasn’t (or, poor souls, isn’t currently)? ;) it never even occurred to me to speak up and request a fix. Even if I thought that my idea would be incorporated, it certainly wouldn't happen before the performance! Well, let

Re: can InstrumentName padding centered according to the longest instrument name?

2015-05-15 Thread David Nalesnik
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi David, First of all, many [public] thanks for having done this work: it’s remarkable, and extremely helpful to me. q.v. On Wednesday night, I was out for a drink with a musician friend, who “admires”

Re: [OT] Re: can InstrumentName padding centered according to the longest instrument name?

2015-05-15 Thread David Nalesnik
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi David, When I used Finale, I was dissatisfied with a lot Who wasn’t (or, poor souls, isn’t currently)? ;) In retrospect, I really should have stuck with Score at the time--which I abandoned mostly

Re: can InstrumentName padding centered according to the longest instrument name?

2015-05-11 Thread tisimst
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Re: can InstrumentName padding centered according to the longest instrument name?

2015-05-11 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hello all, In the snippet http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=383, the instrument names are centered [beautifully!] based on the total indent value. How would one make the instruments be

Re: can InstrumentName padding centered according to the longest instrument name?

2015-05-11 Thread David Nalesnik
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:04 AM, tisimst tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: Fantastic work, David! Appreciate that! Definitely more involved code than you would expect, but very thoroughly done, allowing for non-centered alignments even. This would make an excellent addition to the core

Re: can InstrumentName padding centered according to the longest instrument name?

2015-05-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Abraham, Fantastic work, David! +1 This would make an excellent addition to the core code, IMHO. +1 The only thing that I would further request (and this applies to instrumentName in general) is that the indent variable automatically adjust itself to be larger to compensate for

Re: can InstrumentName padding centered according to the longest instrument name?

2015-05-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David (et al.), This brings back the days of getting my dissertation--an orchestral composition--through all the final hoops. Did the explicit requirement of 1.5\in at the left (if I remember correctly) include the instrument name or not? There never was a conclusive answer. You

Re: can InstrumentName padding centered according to the longest instrument name?

2015-05-11 Thread David Nalesnik
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Oh, and some/all of the [Short]InstrumentName settings (e.g., padding) should be adjustable after the score is “in progress. =) This is possible to a limited extent. You can't drop in a change when you

Re: can InstrumentName padding centered according to the longest instrument name?

2015-05-11 Thread David Nalesnik
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi David (et al.), Not sure what the best practice would be. After all, you do want the numbers you set for indent and short-indent to exactly match what you specify. It depends on how you define

Re: can InstrumentName padding centered according to the longest instrument name?

2015-05-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David (et al.), Not sure what the best practice would be. After all, you do want the numbers you set for indent and short-indent to exactly match what you specify. It depends on how you define “indent” and “short-indent”… or “margin”… ;) All kidding aside: 1. Perhaps there could be a

Re: can InstrumentName padding centered according to the longest instrument name?

2015-05-11 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Oh, and some/all of the [Short]InstrumentName settings (e.g., padding) should be adjustable after the score is “in progress. =) Cheers, Kieren. On May 11, 2015, at 11:57 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi David (et al.), Not sure what the best practice would be.

Re: can InstrumentName padding centered according to the longest instrument name?

2015-05-11 Thread David Nalesnik
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi David (et al.), This brings back the days of getting my dissertation--an orchestral composition--through all the final hoops. Did the explicit requirement of 1.5\in at the left (if I remember

Re: can InstrumentName padding centered according to the longest instrument name?

2015-05-11 Thread David Nalesnik
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi Abraham, Fantastic work, David! +1 This would make an excellent addition to the core code, IMHO. +1 The only thing that I would further request (and this applies to instrumentName in

can InstrumentName padding centered according to the longest instrument name?

2015-04-26 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, In the snippet http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=383, the instrument names are centered [beautifully!] based on the total indent value. How would one make the instruments be centered in a block only the width of the longest instrument name (plus maybe a little padding), with the