Re: Instrument names at beginning of staves

[Edward Neeman]

Hi Liang,

The solution is included in the 2.7 manual, not 2.6. 
Add this command:

\override Score.InstrumentName #'space-alist =
#'((left-edge extra-space . 2.0))

Cheers,
Edward Neeman
--- liang seng <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi, I would like to know how to lengthen the
> horizontal distance between 
> instrument names at the beginning of staves from the
> left part of the 
> staves? The instrument names overlap the braces
> generated by "GrandStaff". I 
> tried inserting spaces after the instrument names
> like so
> \set Staff.instrument = "Instrument      " but it
> doesn't work. Is there a 
> solution to this?
> Thank you.
> Yours sincerely,
> Seng Liang.
> 
> 
> 
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