Re: centering note columns [WAS: Directional NoteHead Stencil Support]

[David Nalesnik]

Hi Kieren,

On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi David,

As always, great work! I will use this on all my scores, once it’s “perfect”.

:)

 

In the meantime, it doesn’t distinguish cases where centering *shouldn’t* be applied, e.g.

\new PianoStaff <<
  \new Staff {
    <c' e' g' c''>1\accent\fermata\f\arpeggio
    c'4 d' e' f'
    R1
  }
  \new Staff {
    R1
    R1
    <c' e' g' c''>1\accent\fermata\f\arpeggio
  }
  \new Staff {
    c'4 r r2
  }
>>

Ah...that's because paper-columns encompass multiple staves...  And thus is dashed all hope of simplicity...

 

Is there a way to:
    (a) have the function automatically check all staves in the current system, and only enable centering if there are only multi-measure rests, full-measure notes, or skips/blank; and/or

Try the attached out.  It will only center an object if the contents of all staves can reasonably be centered.

 

    (b) manually enable or disable the function on a per-measure basis?

Not sure about this.  It would be easy, of course, to define shortcuts for \override/\once \override/\revert and the like, but I fear you have something more difficult in mind :)

--David

 

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