minimal width of initial

[eroux]

A request from Solesmes: it would be useful to be able to set a minimal width for an initial, so that there is no big difference between an I and an M as intials, and make a more coherent output.

[rpspringuel]

Setting manualinitialwidth should do this. Has this been tried and found to be not working (in which case this is a bug report, not an enhancement request)?

[eroux]

I'm not really sure it's exactly the same, manualinitialwidth sets the width, here it would set the minimal width, meaning that initials can grow larger, but not smaller than the minimal value

[rpspringuel]

Ah, that is a bit different and not what manualinitialwidth does.

A work around would be to use the illumination feature to fill the initial box manually and include a horizontal strut which would set the width of the box. However, the enhancement itself would not be hard to implement. How do you see it interacting with manualinitialwidth?

[eroux]

the interaction is quite the problem indeed... maybe we could avoid the problem by taking manual when set whatever the value of minimal?