Re: Placing a section name at the start of a staff

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On 09/05/2016 04:11, Stephen MacNeil wrote:
> Actually I just noticed \halign -- that's not needed I copied it from 
> another one where it was needed
>
> so those examples should just read
>
> \set Staff.instrumentName = \markup { \box \fontsize #5 \pad-around 
> #.5 \bold "B"}
>
>
> etc.
Thank you very much. It's close, but will need a little tweaking. Your 
example is right-justified against the left margin, whereas I want it 
starting at the left margin, and pushing the staff to the right 
(actually, I think that was your \halign, removing that moves it 
partially (but not enough) to the right so I'll have to play).

The other glitch is the inter-score spacing seems to be slightly larger 
than the intersystem spacing - I'm trying to tell by eye and it's 
difficult to be sure - but if it's hard to tell then I should be able to 
live with it :-) So now I know this approach should work without too 
much difficulty.

It sounds like shortInstrumentName might work even better from my point 
of view, but my first attempts in that direction have not been 
promising. I think I know what I'm doing wrong, though.

Thanks again
Wol