Re: Help a newb: Formatting custom instrument names

[Jean Abou Samra]

Lukas,
> Hi Michael,
>
> I think, going by this description, that maybe an InstrumentName is 
> actually the simplest solution.
>
> In order to right-align the instrument names, try the attached diff 
> (using git apply).
>
> It's basically a matter of
>
> - adding an \override InstrumentName.self-alignment-X = #RIGHT (for 
> right-aligning the instrument name block as a whole),
> - creating a variant of the (now renamed) \unit-height-column command 
> for a \unit-height-right-column.
Feel free to give me your GitLab user name so I can give you push access 
over the repository.
> Also, I'm quite sure it's possible to accomodate for arbitrary staff 
> space. By which method do you change those?
Currently, it's defined in draw-staff-symbol.ily as an output definition 
variable. Now that you spot it, I should most likely change this to 
overriding StaffSymbol.staff-space and use ly:staff-symbol-staff-space 
in the stencil...

Regards,
Jean