Re: horizontally centering denominator in compound time signatures

[Neil Puttock]

2008/11/30 Reinhold Kainhofer <address@hidden>:

> It's actually not a problem of spacing between the clef and the time
> signature, but rather a problem with make-center-column-markup, which ignores
> the left extents. for example, it also breaks for 2/4 + (2+3)/8. The second
> fraction will overlap with the first +, because the extents left to the center
> of the (2+3)/8 fraction will be totally ignored. In other words, the center of
> the (3+2)/8 fraction will be where its left edge should be...

As far as I can see, if you have centred columns in a line, the
problem appears to be that while each element in a column is aligned
to its centre, it's also aligned to the centre of the previous column.

A workaround is to \left-align each centred column.

> So, this is a general problem with the general-column scheme function...

Perhaps there's a bug in stack-lines?

Regards,
Neil