Re: [PATCH] Fix short-indent

[Nicolas Sceaux]

Le 25 juil. 08 à 03:38, Han-Wen Nienhuys a écrit :

> I'm OK with it if Nicolas is.
>
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Neil Puttock <address@hidden>  
> wrote:
> > 2008/7/24 Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden>:
> > > What was short-indent used for before?
> >
> > Nicolas introduced it in February with the following commit:
> >
> > Instrument names: horizontal aligment.
> >
> > - define a short-indent scaled layout variable;
> >
> > - using indent or short-indent, and the value of the self-alignment-X
> >
> > grob property, horizontally align the instrument name;
> >
> > - by default, center instrument names.
> >
> > It's only documented in the regression test, but that implies that  
> > its
> > purpose is to set the indent for all systems except the first.
> >
> > Currently, if you increase short-indent, all it does is shunt
> > shortInstrumentName off the left hand side, rather than indent the
> > system.

When short indent was implemented, I asked whether it should
take place in the margin or not; I was answered to place it
in the margin. But I too consider it is better to place short
instrument names in a indentation outside the margin, so I'm OK
with the patch.

Nicolas