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

[Thomas Morley]

2015-02-04 8:33 GMT+01:00 Thomas Morley <address@hidden>:
> 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.

Arpeggio will be a problem:
http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/How-to-detect-if-NoteColumn-has-an-arpeggio-with-2-18-0-td160465.html

Unanswered til today.

> But try it out.
>
> Cheers,
>   Harm