Re: Re-aligning instrument names

[David Sumbler]

Thanks for this response.  I am ashamed to say that I spent several
hours trying to figure this out, but somehow I never got the syntax
quite right.  Perhaps I'm getting too old for this...

David

On Fri, 2018-04-06 at 16:09 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> David Sumbler <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > 
> > I have spent a long time trying to find the answer to this, but
> > without
> > success.
> > 
> > I have a piece with strings divided often into several parts;
> > sometimes
> > these may not be even divisions, for instance where a four-part
> > section
> > has instruments 3 and 4 playing the same music.  I therefore need
> > to
> > show which individual instruments are to play each line.
> > 
> > \version "2.19.81"
> > 
> > \new StaffGroup \with {
> >   instrumentName = "Violins I" }
> > <<
> >   \new Staff \with {
> >   instrumentName = "1."}
> >   { c' }
> >   \new Staff \with {
> >   instrumentName = "2."}
> >   { c' }
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > In above minimal example, how do I get the Staff.instrumentName-s
> > to be
> > right-aligned to the system bracket, rather than centre-aligned as
> > the
> > StaffGroup name is?
>