Re: right and left-align

[andrea valle]

Thanks Mats,
I suspected but wasn't sure.
So what should I use to have right / left-align in the way \center 
works?
I need to have instrument names right aligned near staff beginning.
Thanks again

-a-



On 25 Jan 2006, at 14:56, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> If you read the documentation carefully, you will notice that 
> center-align does something completely different than right-align
> and left-align. It seems like a very unfortunate choice of command
> names.
>
>   /Mats
>
> Quoting andrea valle <address@hidden>:
>
> > Hi to all,
> > In markup do \right and \left-align work in the same way of 
> > \center-align?
> > I mean:
> > \markup{\center-align { \line{temple 3} \line{2} \line{blocks}}
> > \markup{\right-align { \line{temple 3} \line{2} \line{blocks}}
> > \markup{\left-align { \line{temple 3} \line{2} \line{blocks}}
> >
> > I thought so, but while \center-align behaves correctly (3 lines), 
> > the other two commands write on the same line thus producing 
> > overlapping lines.
> > What am I missing?
> > Thanks
> >
> > -a-
> >
> >  (on macosx 10.3, lily 2.7.27)
> >
> > Andrea Valle
> > DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione
> > Università degli Studi di Torino
> > http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea
> > address@hidden
> >
> >
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Andrea Valle
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Università degli Studi di Torino
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