On Mon, 2023-04-17 at 20:26 +0200, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le lundi 17 avril 2023 à 18:51 +0100, Richard Shann a écrit : > Someone asked me how to set some verses in columns across the page > after the title in their piece. I found a snippet in the LSR which > defines a markup command \columns to place columns evenly spaced > across > the page. So with three verses you get one aligned at the left, one > 1/3 > and one 2/3 of the way across the page. With two columns the second > column starts at the page center. > What is nice about this definition is that it scales nicely when you > alter the global staff size. > I have tried to modify the definition to move the whole set of > columns > to the left,
eeek! sorry, I meant to the right of course, to center the columns on the page. > so that e.g. the second of three columns straddles the > center of the page or the space between two columns is centered. > My efforts have been in vain, so I was wondering if someone could > suggest how to do this. > Like this? > \markup \override #'(line-width . 100) \columns ... > The line-width property is read by \line / make-line-markup. Oh, I'm sorry for writing "left" for "right", that completely muddled my question. Setting the line width narrower moves the center of the block of columns to the left - even further from the center of the page. If it existed \override #'(left-margin . 100) might be the answer. For complete flexibility I suppose one could wish to set to space to left of each column separately... Richard
