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Re: Instrument names


From: Graham Percival
Subject: Re: Instrument names
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:48:10 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 02:32:42AM +0000, Keith OHara wrote:
> Phil Holmes <email <at> philholmes.net> writes:
> 
> > So it would be easy to add something to the 
> > indent here to take account of intrument names.
> 
> The InstrumentName spanners can change when an instrument changes, or
> whenever the user feels like changing the text.  The short-indent will
> affect line breaking, which could affect which instrument name goes at
> the front of each line.  Even if output-def.cc can find all the 
> InstrumentName spanners, it is hard to know which ones to pull information
> from.

Hmm.  Could we just access the first instrument name, then set the
indent according to that unless the user manually sets an indent?
I think that will fix 99% of the "instrument names off the
left-hand side of the page" problems.

- Graham



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