Re: Short-indent does not seem to work

[James E. Bailey]

On 23.07.2008, at 10:02, Arno Rog wrote:

> L.S.
>
> or a large orchestral score I need to repeat the short instrument  
> names on all
> but the first page. They print fine, but I need some more space to  
> print.
>
> Unfortunately, it looks like short-indent
> (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Instrument-names#Instrument-names 
> )
> does not work!
> James Bailey has mentioned this before in march 2008
> (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.general/35875/match=short+indent 
> ),
> no reply though.

I don't know if it's broken, or I just don't know how to use it, but  
my current workaround is to adjust the line-width and the horizontal  
shift