Your question is also related to the discussion near the end of the "Merging scores in one pdf" thread which just moved to the French LilyPond user discuss list.
If you understand that the behavior of \markup is always relative to the present location on the page, then you can understand why the kludge of commands in Romel's answer is necessary. Center, right-align, left-align, column, etc. are all relative to "a hypothetical note" at the current location (which is the left margin when \markup is outside of a score). You have to manually move the current location to the place where you want the text before typing it. Where the discussion in the other thread was headed was that when we inexperienced users put a \markup outside of a score, we expect it to format the text relative to the entire page. We shouldn't have to use fill-line or hspace in order to get text to move to the center of the page. And vertical control of the position of a \markup is almost impossible unless there is a score after it. I'm optimistic that sdfgsdhdshd and Valentin will uncover some useful tips and tricks on the French list. Valentin promised to provide a summary for the English list. And please don't take this as negative criticism for LilyPond. LilyPond is intended to be a music writing language, not a book typesetting language. It is a tribute to the power of LilyPond that we are able to stretch its boundaries this way with tips and tweaks. My suggestion, instead of changing the present behavior of \markup, is to add a "\text" or "\para" context object to contain a paragraph of text with very simple formatting capabilities in its \layout block, such as: paraBefore = Absolute (in, mm, pt) or Relative (x.x lines) paraAfter = Absolute (in, mm, pt) or Relative (x.x lines) paraLeft = Absolute (in, mm, pt) or Relative (% column width or x.x chars) Indent paraRight = Absolute (in, mm, pt) or Relative (% column width or x.x chars) Indent paraFirst = Absolute (in, mm, pt) or Relative (% column width or x.x chars) Indent (negative would be hanging indent) paraJust = Left, Center, Right, Full Justification Most standard TeX character formatting commands (color, italic, bold, underline, size, etc.) already exist, but may need to be tweaked for the new context. Paul -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rune Zedeler Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:23 AM To: Romel Anthony S. Bismonte Cc: LilyPond User Mailing List Subject: Re: Aligning relative to page Romel Anthony S. Bismonte skrev: > Now, it would be nicer for the segue markup to be right-aligned to the > page, so I tried changing the markup to this: Use fill-line for this. \markup { \fill-line { "" \column { \italic "segue to" "Something Else" } } } -Rune _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
