Re: overriding text alignment in stylesheet

[Mats Bengtsson]

Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> > or
> > \set Staff.instrumentName = \markup{\column {Violoncello "e Basso" }}
>
> That's what I'd prefer.
Then I don't understand your question. What's the problem you get when you
use this approach?
> Actually, what I'd *really* prefer is
>
>     \set Staff.instrumentName = "Violoncello e Basso"
>
> and then have the stylesheet wrap the text automatically -- but that 
> seems like it would likely be too difficult and error-prone.
It should be possible to write a few lines of Scheme code that do the 
equivalent
of \markup{\wordwrap ... } and then feed the result to
ly:system-start-text::print. Then, you can override the stencil property of
InstrumentName to use that function instead.

  /Mats
> Cheers,
> Kieren.

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