Re: RFC: rethink horizontal alignment of mid-staff bar numbers

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On 15/11/20 14:53, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
>> I appreciate that you have given a nuanced response. Practically
>> speaking, the vast majority of scores only have bar numbers at the
>> beginning of a line, so I will simplistically categorise your response
>> as in favour of keeping LilyPond's current behaviour.
> 
> I would very much like that LilyPond has the ability of automatically
> adjusting the horizontal position of some grobs, in particular dynamic
> signs, bar numbers, and rehearsal marks.  The idea is that a large
> delta from the optimum vertical position would make LilyPond retry to
> horizontally position the grob within some delta (say, ±2 notehead
> widths) from the 'correct' position.  If the grob can then be moved
> (much) nearer to the standard vertical position, LilyPond should use
> this adjusted horizontal position.
> 
Plus 100 !!!

You know I moan about that regularly - page real estate is very valuable
to me and pushing grobs vertically wastes so much ...

I was told, unfortunately, that that will actually be very difficult to
implement :-(

Cheers,
Wol