Re: Instrument names at beginning of staves

[Daniel Johnson]

liang seng wrote:

> Hi, I would like to know how to lengthen the horizontal distance
> between instrument names at the beginning of staves from the left part
> of the staves? The instrument names overlap the braces generated by
> "GrandStaff". I tried inserting spaces after the instrument names like so
> \set Staff.instrument = "Instrument      " but it doesn't work. Is
> there a solution to this?
> Thank you.
> Yours sincerely,
> Seng Liang.

Yet another solution is this:
\set Staff.instrument = \markup {"Instrument" \hspace #2 }