Re: Centered text lines in markuplist

[Andrew Bernard]

Hi David,

I am unable to understand your response. Is my mail not clear? I
explicitly diagrammed what would be good.

At no point in this topic have I offered criticism of any kind of
lilypond, or your work. Others would verify that I am sure.

Whence this aggression in your reply David? It is entirely unjustified.

In English, which I now must assume is not your primary language since
you seem to not understand perfectly polite writing, to say one 'would
settle for something' is one perfectly normal way of saying that such
as solution would be good, fine, and satisfactory.

In what way is the small diagram I included unclear?

My emails have simply been to ask, can this centering be done? It
appears the answer is no. If that is the case, it would be a good
addition to lilypond, but so far I have not suggested that.

Can you provide evidence that I said 'what you do is crap'? At no
point have I implied this in any way. Would you please calm down and
give people the benefit of the doubt?

The example Federico posted does not work right on the last line, but
that is not criticism of anybody. How could it be?


Andrew



On 17 July 2016 at 23:12, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Andrew Bernard <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Tools such as InDesign offer all the possibilities for the last line,
>> of which there are several, as you know. I would settle for left
>> aligned. That would be fine, and is a fairly common usage in
>> typography.
>
> Sigh.  Can you please tell what you actually want?
>
>> I am sorry if I am not clear. I simply want a relatively narrow column
>> of justified text that spans multiple pages, centered in the page. But
>> not just with setting margins, as it is for quoted material in the
>> context of wider set text, such as you often see in books:
>>
>> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>         zzzzz
>>         zzzzz <- multiple pages of this block
>>         zzzzz
>>         zz       <- last line can do this
>> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> So what _should_ the last line do?  If one actually invests effort, it
> is rather frustrating to be told that what one does is crap anyway but
> will be looked upon benignly.
>
> So would that be what you actually want or not?  And if not, what
> _would_ you consider not just something you "would settle for" but
> actually satisfactory?
>
> --
> David Kastrup