Re: centering note columns [WAS: Directional NoteHead Stencil Support]

2015-03-23 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Kieren, On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi David, > > > Try the attached out. It will only center an object if the contents of > all staves can reasonably be centered. > > So far, I would call that "perfect”! =) > oh, it will be br

Re: centering note columns [WAS: Directional NoteHead Stencil Support]

2015-03-23 Thread David Nalesnik
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 8:47 AM, David Nalesnik wrote: > Hi Kieren, > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Kieren MacMillan < > kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > >> Hi David, >> >> > Try the attached out. It will only center an object if the contents of >> all staves can reasonably be center

Re: centering note columns [WAS: Directional NoteHead Stencil Support]

2015-03-22 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, > Try the attached out. It will only center an object if the contents of all > staves can reasonably be centered. So far, I would call that "perfect”! =) > It would be easy, of course, to define shortcuts for \override/\once > \override/\revert and the like As long as that’s all i

Re: centering note columns [WAS: Directional NoteHead Stencil Support]

2015-03-22 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi Kieren, On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi David, > > As always, great work! I will use this on all my scores, once it’s > “perfect”. > :) > > In the meantime, it doesn’t distinguish cases where centering *shouldn’t* > be applied,

Re: centering note columns [WAS: Directional NoteHead Stencil Support]

2015-03-22 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, As always, great work! I will use this on all my scores, once it’s “perfect”. In the meantime, it doesn’t distinguish cases where centering *shouldn’t* be applied, e.g. \new PianoStaff << \new Staff { 1\accent\fermata\f\arpeggio c'4 d' e' f' R1 } \new Staff { R1

centering note columns [WAS: Directional NoteHead Stencil Support]

2015-03-22 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi, In a recent thread, the topic of centering items within their measures came up. This post on "Scores of Beauty" ( http://lilypondblog.org/2013/06/horizontally-aligning-full-measure-rests/ ) shows an example where this nonstandard practice looks much better. Normally, of course, a note filling