Re: Instrument names

[Phil Holmes]

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Phil Holmes


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
To: "Graham Percival" <address@hidden>; "Keith OHara" 
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Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: Instrument names


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Graham Percival" <address@hidden>
> To: "Keith OHara" <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 12:48 PM
> Subject: Re: Instrument names
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> > 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
>
> I'm having a think about the best way to handle instrument changes, from a 
> theoretical standpoint, not from an implementation one.  Once I've checked 
> what Sibelius does and if Gould mentions it, I'll update the list.
>
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> Phil Holmes

Sibelius sets the left indent to accommodate the widest short name there is 
in the score.  Gould doesn't explicitly mention left spacing for instruments 
names (that I can find, anyway) but all her scores do the same - the score 
is spaced to accommodate the widest instrument name.

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Phil Holmes