Re: Indenting text block on title page

[Guy Stalnaker]

David,

On 2/24/14 4:54 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
> Guy Stalnaker <address@hidden> writes:
>
> -1 = #LEFT means align (the reference point) to the left border of the
>   text, 1 = #RIGHT means align to the right border of the text, 0 =
>   #CENTER means align to the center of the text.
>
> #-5 extrapolates, so it puts the reference point two times the length of
> the text (#RIGHT - #LEFT = 2) to the left of the text.

Ah! Reference point of the TEXT not the LINE! So it does indeed make 
sense that a four-character word will move approximately the distance 
expected with #-5 #-10, etc. while a seven-word phrase will disappear 
with #-10. Got it. Thank you.

> I'd probably rather use something like
>
> \line { \hspace ...  ... }
> or \translate #'(... . ...) ...
>
> myself.  Then you can directly work with units of spacing rather than
> jiggling with alignments.

I would swear that I tried that. Which means, again, I'm not doing it 
right, especially if YOU say this :-)

So ... what is the correct syntax for \hspace (since it is obvious I 
don't know what I'm doing with \halign either)? In the example snippets 
\hspace does position text, but in every example that I read it is used 
to position the second or third text of the example, never the first:

<code>
\markup {
  default text font size
  \hspace #2
  \abs-fontsize #16 { text font size 16 }
  \hspace #2
  \abs-fontsize #12 { text font size 12 }
</code>

Should it work like this, too:

<code>
\markup {
  \hspace #2
  default text font size
  \hspace #2
  \abs-fontsize #16 { text font size 16 }
  \hspace #2
  \abs-fontsize #12 { text font size 12 }
</code>

Thank you, again.

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Guy Stalnaker
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