Short-indent does not seem to work

[Arno Rog]

L.S.

or a large orchestral score I need to repeat the short instrument names on all
but the first page. They print fine, but I need some more space to print.

Unfortunately, it looks like short-indent
(http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Instrument-names#Instrument-names)
does not work!
James Bailey has mentioned this before in march 2008
(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.general/35875/match=short+indent),
no reply though.

Can somebody confirm it has been broken? (using ver. 2.11.52)

Thanks in advance.

AWRog