Re: How to do custom titles

[Daniel Johnson]

I do a fair amount of chant settings and arrangements.  Using Lilypond 
2.5.3, I've managed to define my own page layouts, using 
/usr/share/lilypond/2.5.3/ly/titling-init.ly as a model; this should 
work with the 2.4 series also.  The following goes at the top of my 
files (actually I include an external file, but this is the gist of it):

\paper{
   #(set-paper-size "letter")
   topmargin = 0.5\in
   leftmargin = 0.75\in
   linewidth = 7\in
   bookTitleMarkup = \markup {
       \column {
           \fill-line { \override #'(font-name . "ptmr") { \override 
#'(font-magnification . 3) \fromproperty #'header:title     } }
           \fill-line { \override #'(baseline-skip . 3)
                   \fill-line { \override #'(font-name . "ptmr") { 
\override #'(font-magnification . 2.5) \fromproperty #'header:subtitle } }
           }
           \fill-line {
               \column {
                   \left-align \override #'(font-name . "ptmr") { 
\override #'(font-magnification . 1.2) \fromproperty #'header:chantsource }
                   \left-align \override #'(font-name . "ptmr") { 
\override #'(font-magnification . 1.2) \fromproperty 
#'header:specialmelody }
                   \left-align \override #'(font-name . "ptmr") { 
\override #'(font-magnification . 1.2) \fromproperty #'header:textsource }
               }
               \column {
                   \right-align \override #'(font-name . "ptmr") { 
\override #'(font-magnification . 1.2) \fromproperty #'header:composer }
                   \right-align \override #'(font-name . "ptmr") { 
\override #'(font-magnification . 1.2) \fromproperty 
#'header:composerdates }
                   \right-align \override #'(font-name . "ptmr") { 
\override #'(font-magnification . 1.2) \fromproperty #'header:arranger }
                   \right-align \override #'(font-name . "ptmr") { 
\override #'(font-magnification . 1.2) \fromproperty 
#'header:arrangerdates }
               }
           }
       }
   }
%  ... similar definitions for scoreTitleMarkup, odd/evenHeaderMarkup, 
odd/evenFooterMarkup ...
}

Note that I've defined my own custom header properties.  This makes my 
music files rather un-portable but it makes generating output for my 
specialized needs much easier.  If I'm not mistaken the mutopia project 
also uses custom-defined header properties.  (For the curious, the 
"ptmr" font is Adobe Times; to get proper PDF output I've had to use 
lilypond-latex.)

As an aside, when you use a text font other than the default (which is 
Computer Modern, the original TeX font developed by Donald Knuth), I 
believe that lilypond currently uses Computer Modern for computing 
metrics, so center- or right-aligned text may appear a bit ragged.

Hope this helps.
--d
Sven Axelsson wrote:
Hello List.
This question is for Lilypond 2.4.2.
Does it really have to be so complicated to do custom titles? In version 2.2.5
it was possible to just change titledefs.tex but that doesn't seem to work
anymore. I understand that you are supposed to write a (fairly complicated)
Scheme procedure to do this, but how do I hook it so it is used?
I'm trying this now:
\include "bagpipe-title.scm"
\layout {
 #(define-public book-title bagpipe-book-title)
 #(define-public score-title bagpipe-book-title)
}
where bagpipe-title.scm at the moment is exactly the same as the definintions
for opera music that can be found in the list archive. But this doesn't work -
the custom definitions are not used. And, yes, I *do* want the book-title and
score-title to look the same.
 


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