Phil, Thanks - I've just found that out. There's an unwelcome interaction between \table and \wordwrap in that the same property - baseline-skip - is used to control both the distance between the lines of wordwrapped text and the distance between the table rows. The defaults give horrible results. So I have to keep on adjusting the value of the property which is a pain :(
\version "2.19.52" \language "english" \markuplist { \override #'(line-width . 80) \override #'(padding . 5) \override #'(baseline-skip . 5) \table #'(-1 -1) { \wordwrap {Bar 27} \override #'(baseline-skip . 2) \wordwrap {This text is hopelessly garbled in the sources, which are also mutually inconsistent. The editor has produced what he hopes is a performable version.} \wordwrap {Bar 29} \override #'(baseline-skip . 2) \wordwrap { "in tempo" aligned but probably best on 6/16 (in neither of the primary sources). On experiment this has been found to work best} } } Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com ------------------------- Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 3:14:27 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: According to the NR, \wordwrap does what you have described: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/formatting-text#text-alignment -- Phil Holmes