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 <[email protected]> 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 > } > } > } > > > > -- > Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) > www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com > > _______________________________________________ > bug-lilypond mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond > _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
