Hello All,

I have two questions related to ragged-right.

#1: Is it possible to change the behavior of ragged-right so that rather
than a system being an arbitrary length, the length snaps to certain
intervals? The out-of-the-box behavior of ragged-right = ##t can result in
systems that are minutely different lengths, which isn't particularly
attractive. Instead, it would be nice to snap to, say increments of 10% of
the maximum line length. I recognize that it's still possible to have two
similar-length lines that snap in opposite directions.

#2: Given #1 above, is it possible to set the margins of the score
dynamically so that the longest system is centered on the page, and all
other systems are left-aligned with it? Ideally, everything outside the
score would take the full margin/line length defined in the \paper block.

I'm typesetting a psalter with tune pairings. We want to generally match
the layout of a previously published hymnal that was done in Finale with
some of the above layout decisions. We're doing this project in LP because
the scope of the project (195 psalm paraphrases, each paired and notated
with multiple common tunes, prepared in multiple slide and print formats)
would be infeasible without the ability to automate the work using LP and a
language like Python.

Thanks in advance,
Carl Peterson

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