Re: Adds incipit section to NR (issue 108270043 by address@hidden)

[Phil Holmes]

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> On 2014/08/21 10:21:18, mail_philholmes.net wrote:
>
> > There's nothing wrong in changing a poor default to a good one, and
> then
> > allowing the user to restore the poor one.
>
> But you are not "changing a poor default to a good one".  You are
> overriding locally, as the default of a single command, what you
> perceive as a poor overall default.  If the default is poor, changing
> it is reasonably.  Scattering different defaults everywhere where
> someone adds code isn't.
>
> Please note that if the incipit command changes some _entirely_
> _unrelated_ default, then the description of the incipit would need to
> include "as one side effect, the alignment of the instrument name is
> changed from its default of #CENTER to #RIGHT because #CENTER looks
> ugly anyway."  Not in relation to incipits, but anyway.


I'm failing to understand something here.  I'm assuming the line at issue is 
this:

\once \override Staff.InstrumentName.self-alignment-X = #RIGHT

which is the line that sets the instrument alignment of the incipit 
instrument itself.  My assumption is that, since is is using \once, then it 
is not changing another entirely unrelated default.  Please could you 
explain how/why/whether this is incorrect, and how/whether it could be 
fixed.  I really don't like having to specify \incipit \with { \override 
InstrumentName.self-alignment-X = #RIGHT } because I do believe that this 
should be default behaviour in this situation.


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Phil Holmes