What Knute means is this:
%%%%
\header {
title = "<Title>" % Top Center
subtitle = "87 87" % Below Title, smaller font
subsubtitle = "SubSubTitle" % Below SubTitle, yet smaller font
}
%%%%
In this usage, you would not use "meter=" in the header
Guy
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On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 3:26 PM Knute Snortum <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 1:10 PM Stephen Fry <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I've been using the default header settings with the text values set as
>> shown in the snippet and the pdf output shown below. However, I would like
>> the meter (10.9.10.9.D) to be centered at the top of the page and next to
>> the tune name (whose variable I will likely have to create manually). I
>> tried using the example in Documentation 3.3.2 > Custom layout for titles
>> to change the alignment, but this doesn't seem to work the same way for
>> "meter" as it does for "title" or "piece" ???
>>
>> YES, the lyrics, tune, and harmony *are all in the public domain*.
>>
>> Could somebody show a way to edit the alignment of the "meter" variable?
>> Note: While the documentation came from the manual for the unstable
>> release, I've been using V 2.18.2. I've run out of space on my local disk,
>> so I cannot upgrade LilyPond without doing a lot of memory management. I
>> would like to get this fixed as soon as possible to send to the printer.
>>
>
> Have you tried subsubtitle as the variable?
>
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> Knute Snortum
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