Re: Enhancement to #771

[Graham Percival]

ok, added as
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1093

Cheers,
- Graham


On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Francisco Vila <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
> Hello. See #771 http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=771
>
> Graham said:
>
>> I'm not certain that I understand the "negative padding to emulate a vertical
>> skyline" issue; if you want this in the tracker, please prepare a tiny 
>> example for
>> the bug-lilypond list, or else just add a new item yourself.
>
> The golden ribbon to this would be:
> Comment #3 by Neil describes the remaining issue clearly. His image
> shows what ideally we would want. It is achieved by manually applying
> a negative offset to the whole column of instrument names so that it
> gets closer to the system, while the items remain centered.  This
> allows us to use an otherwise empty space, namely the space between
> the longest name and the system, see my image on comment #2 for what
> we currently get.  A fully automatic process would draw a pair of
> skylines, one for the systems with their starter braces, another for
> the column of names, and could automatically compute this override.
>
> http://paconet.org/negative-instrumentname-padding.png
>
> \markup { what we currently get: }
> \score {
>        <<
>          \new PianoStaff <<
>            \new Staff \with { instrumentName = "short" } { s }
>            \new Staff \with { instrumentName = "short" } { s }
>          >>
>          \new Staff \with { instrumentName = "looooong" } { s }
>        >>
> }
>
> \markup { what a smart engraver ideally would do, automatically: }
> \score {
>        <<
>          \new PianoStaff <<
>            \new Staff \with { instrumentName = "short" } { s }
>            \new Staff \with { instrumentName = "short" } { s }
>          >>
>          \new Staff \with { instrumentName = "looooong" } { s }
>        >>
>
>        \layout {
>                  \context {
>                    \Staff
>                    % or \Score, if there are also instrument names attached to
> grouping contexts
>                    % (e.g. PianoStaff)
>                    \override InstrumentName #'padding = #-1.0
>                }
>        }
> }
>
>
>
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