#766 Indent should automatically adapt to instrument names' length.

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: *anonymous

Originally created by: magillen...@gmail.com

LilyPond v2.12.2

When a long instrument name is used in a score, the name is cut off of the
page. I know that you can change the size of the indent to fix this, but I
was just wondering why that is not automatic. It seems like it would be
rather easy to increase the indent if the program detects an instrument's
name being cut off.

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Originally posted by: v.villenave

Hmmm, let's see.. how about:

\version "2.13.3"
\new Staff \with {
  instrumentName = "this is a really really long instrument name"
}{
  c'
}

CCing Joe and Neil, since they've recently been looking at InstrumentName stuff.
It certainly woule be a nice feature indeed. Or at least, having a keep-inside-line
kind of a switch.

Summary: Indent should automatically adapt to instrument names' length.
Cc: n.puttock joeneeman
Status: Accepted

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Originally posted by: percival.music.ca@gmail.com

Issue 1093 has been merged into this issue.

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Originally posted by: percival.music.ca@gmail.com

hmm, google code lets me delete non-initial commments (I removed mine from comment 1, which was just saying "give a minimal example"), but not the initial report.  (I wanted Valentin's nice example to be the first one)

Here's an attached PDF showing the instrument name going off the left-hand side of the page.  The generated png automatically shifts the entire thing to the right (like we'd like to happen for pdfs), so it doesn't show any problem.

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Originally posted by: Elu...@gmail.com

maybe not exactly what is asked for, but look at it the other way round:

given a certain indentation the instrument name should automatically adapt to it (this of course works only when corresponding functions are used: \fill-line, \word-wrap...)

Nicolas Sceaux has written a function to do this - with this you don't have to calculate the line-width yourself! (see the discussion on http://old.nabble.com/instrument-name-or-%5Cmarkup-question-td33030134.html )

Cc: -n.putt...@gmail.com -joenee...@gmail.com nicolas....@gmail.com

[Valentin Villenave]

Here’s another link to the discussion Eluze referred to:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2011-12/msg00571.html
(Nicolas’ code still works nicely with no changes required, more than seven years on.)

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Originally posted by: PhilEHol...@googlemail.com

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Blocking: lilypond:1015

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Originally posted by: simon.al...@mail.de

It’s weird that this issue is marked as "Blocking: lilypond:1015", which latter one is fixed as of 2.15.somewhere.

[Simon Albrecht]

Which is obsolete after the export from Google.