RE: Aligning instrument names

[Trevor Daniels]

Many thanks, Thies

Your suggestion works perfectly for left-aligning instrument
names, and it is certainly simpler than my best effort!
With hspace 1 or 2 larger than the longest name and 1 larger
again for staves which are outside any bracket or brace the
left alignment (for the default font at least) is almost
perfect.

Trevor

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+t.daniels=treda.co.u
> address@hidden Behalf Of
> Thies Albrecht
> Sent: 24 October 2006 22:34
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Aligning instrument names
>
>
> Hi Trevor!
>
> > This is somewhat arcane - anyone found a better way?
> >
> >      \set Staff.instrument=\markup {
> >       \override #'(baseline-skip . 0)
> >       \left-align { \column { \transparent
> AAAAAAAAA Solo } }
> >      }
> Here's what I do (I hope I'll remember correctly
> as I can't find a file containing it right now):
>
>    \set Staff.instrument = \markup {
>       \combine
>          \hspace #5.0
>          "My Instrument"
>    }
>
> You can easily adjust the space by changing 5.0.
>
> Kind regards,
> Thies Albrecht
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