Ah - it would appear that there is a typo on the doc page, which refers to make-center-markup (which doesn’t exist) but make-center-column-markup does.
Once I figured that I out I was able to fix this myself. Sorry for the noise. A. > On 9 Nov 2024, at 17:25, Alex Harker <ajhar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > I’m trying to generate some text markup programmatically that ends of as a > markup-list (or a centre-column). > > I don’t really have a very good grasp on either markup in scheme or the > relevant macros, but I have something that compiles and generates something. > However, it generates a bunch of intermediate line commands that mess up my > formatting. > > I’m read the below from here: > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/extending/markup-construction-in-scheme > > “The markup-list argument of commands such as #:line, #:center, and #:column > cannot be a variable or the result of a function call. > (markup #:line (function-that-returns-markups)) > is invalid. One should use the make-line-markup, make-center-markup, or > make-column-markup functions instead," > > However - make-center-markup is not available to call (it is an unbound > symbol when I hit compile. If anyone could fix the below code for me (or tell > me how to do so) that would be super helpful. > > Thanks > > Alex > > > ** N.B. display shows the horizontal/vertical issue, but the code is mainly > to log the differences between the two outputs > > \version "2.24.1" > > #(define (psg-string-number-list idx num fontsize) > (define str (number->string idx)) > (if (>= idx num) > (markup (#:fontsize fontsize str)) > (markup (#:fontsize fontsize str) (psg-string-number-list (+ idx 1) num > fontsize)))) > > #(define (psg-string-numbers copedent fontsize) > (markup #:center-column ((psg-string-number-list 1 copedent fontsize)))) > > %% Do this manually > > \displayScheme \markup \center-column \fontsize #-3 { 1 2 3 } > > #(display #{\markup \center-column \fontsize #-3 { 1 2 3 }#}) > #(newline) > > %% Attempt to do this programmatically > > \displayScheme #(psg-string-numbers 3 -3) > > #(display (psg-string-numbers 3 -3)) > #(newline) >
