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

[David Wright]

On Tue 10 May 2016 at 12:45:38 (-0400), Stephen MacNeil wrote:
> >>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
> 
> remove indent
> 
> \paper {
> 
> 
> %indent = 0
> 
> 
> %left-margin = 15
> 
> 
> }
> 
> does that work?
> 
> >>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 :-)
> 
> If I understand it's probably because the instrument name takes lager
> space, so make it smaller? But I am not exactly sure that's what you mean.

I think he means

\paper {
  score-system-spacing = ...
}

Just finding the right terminology helps. A glance at the NM contents
would make this trivial to find out.

Cheers,
David.