On 20/02/2026 12:27, Simon Albrecht wrote:
I like having a horizontal line separating the footers from the score.
However, I don’t know how to hide that line when the footer is empty
(see working example below).
I thought maybe I could adapt the \first-visible markup command, but I
couldn’t get far with that (how to access the header fields in the
markup command definition?).
Could someone give me a pointer please, or has someone got a solution
for this kind of issue?
I think this will answer your question.
\version "2.25.29"
#(define (separator layout props arg)
(if (or (chain-assoc-get 'header:copyright props)
(chain-assoc-get 'header:tagline props))
(interpret-markup layout props arg)
empty-stencil))
\header {
% copyright = "Copyright is mine!"
tagline = ##f
% tagline = "Special tagline"
}
\paper {
oddFooterMarkup = \markup \center-column {
%% how to make the following horizontal line conditional on whether the
%% following header fields aren’t empty?
\on-the-fly \separator \override #'(span-factor . 1/3) \draw-hline
%% Copyright header field only on first page in each bookpart.
\if \on-first-page-of-part \fill-line {
\fromproperty #'header:copyright
}
%% Tagline only on last page in each book.
\if \on-last-page \fill-line {
\fromproperty #'header:tagline
}
}
}
\markup "[insert Public Domain content here]"
--
Timothy Lanfear, Bristol, UK.
