Re: centering full-measure objects (notes and/or rests)

[Thomas Morley]

2015-02-04 6:31 GMT+01:00 Jay Anderson <address@hidden>:
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 9:30 PM, Kieren MacMillan
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 2. Why is this not Lilypond’s default behaviour? As I understand it, 
>> traditional engraving practice is to centre full-measure objects (notes 
>> and/or rests) in *any* measure of a piece, as long as all staves in the 
>> current system consist of only full-measure objects (notes and/or rests).
>
> Gould says that a bar containing a single note is placed left of
> center. Full measure rests are centered. So lilypond is behaving
> correctly from what I can tell, but I agree at times it'd be nice to
> be able to adjust the off-centered-ness of the note. It's never
> bothered me enough to try and fix it though. I'd definitely be
> interested in being able to tweak it if it were available.
>
> -----Jay
>

Once I did:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-05/msg00880.html
Iirc, there is a problem now, because of internal changes.
But try it out.

Cheers,
  Harm