Instrument names and smallest possible bounding box

1) Instrument names. The default placement of instrument names seems a bit messy compared to my default Sibelius output: Lilypond: They seem "off", not alligned properly. This is of course the fault of the author. Most likely there is a easy fix. Suggestions? 2) I need to export pngs for

Re: Instrument names and smallest possible bounding box

On 17.01.2016 12:10, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote: The default placement of instrument names seems a bit messy compared to my default Sibelius output. They seem "off", not alligned properly. This is of course the fault of the author. Most likely there is a easy fix. Suggestions? Well, it’s not

Re: Instrument names and smallest possible bounding box

Am 17.01.2016 um 12:10 schrieb Carl-Henrik Buschmann: > > 1) Instrument names. > > The default placement of instrument names seems a bit messy compared to my > default Sibelius output: > > > Lilypond: > They seem "off", not alligned properly. This is of course the fault of the > author.

Re: Instrument names and smallest possible bounding box

> 17. jan. 2016 kl. 12.24 skrev Malte Meyn : >> >> 2) I need to export pngs for my latex documents and i would like the >> bounding >> box to be as small as possible. How do i do this? >> > > There is a lilypond option -dpreview which does this iirc. And apart > from

Re: Instrument names and smallest possible bounding box

On Sun, 17 Jan 2016, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote: > 2) I need to export pngs for my latex documents and i would like the > bounding box to be as small as possible. How do i do this? I don't know how well this fits into your workflow, but I'd be inclined to trim the images after export using

Re: Instrument names and smallest possible bounding box

Hi all, On Jan 17, 2016, at 6:24 AM, Malte Meyn wrote: > LilyPond tries to center-align the instrument names. Long names which > don’t fit into the margin defined by indent (default 1.5cm (?)) are > right-aligned (“Woodwind” in your example). This “mixing” behaviour >

Re: Instrument names and smallest possible bounding box

Hi Carl-Henrik > 1) Instrument names. > The default placement of instrument names seems a bit messy compared to my > default Sibelius output: Actually, I much prefer the Lilypond output — it almost perfectly matches the convention of hand-engraved music. > They seem "off", not alligned

Re: Instrument names and smallest possible bounding box

Hi, On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi all, > > On Jan 17, 2016, at 6:24 AM, Malte Meyn wrote: > > > LilyPond tries to center-align the instrument names. Long names which > > don’t fit into the margin defined by