Re: Instrument names

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graham Percival" <address@hidden>
To: "Keith OHara" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: Instrument names


> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 02:32:42AM +0000, Keith OHara wrote:
> > Phil Holmes <email <at> philholmes.net> writes:
> >
> > > So it would be easy to add something to the
> > > indent here to take account of intrument names.
> >
> > The InstrumentName spanners can change when an instrument changes, or
> > whenever the user feels like changing the text.  The short-indent will
> > affect line breaking, which could affect which instrument name goes at
> > the front of each line.  Even if output-def.cc can find all the
> > InstrumentName spanners, it is hard to know which ones to pull 
> > information
> > from.
>
> Hmm.  Could we just access the first instrument name, then set the
> indent according to that unless the user manually sets an indent?
> I think that will fix 99% of the "instrument names off the
> left-hand side of the page" problems.
>
> - Graham

I'm having a think about the best way to handle instrument changes, from a 
theoretical standpoint, not from an implementation one.  Once I've checked 
what Sibelius does and if Gould mentions it, I'll update the list.

--
Phil Holmes