Why not use \bookpart and have a separate title page with all that information. You can format that exactly as you wish without using the predefined fields:
%=========================================================================== ==== \version "2.12.2" date = #(strftime "%d/%m/%Y" (localtime (current-time))) copywrite = #(strftime "Copyright C %Y" (localtime (current-time))) #(define-markup-command (bookpart-page-number layout props) () (let ((first-page-number (ly:output-def-lookup layout 'first-page-number)) (page-number (chain-assoc-get 'page:page-number props 0))) (interpret-markup layout props (format "~a" (1+ (- page-number first-page-number)))))) \paper { #(set-paper-size "a4") top-margin = 1.5\cm bottom-margin = 1.5\cm line-width = 18\cm % ragged-bottom = ##f % ragged-last-bottom = ##f oddHeaderMarkup = \markup \fill-line { \on-the-fly #not-first-page \fromproperty #'header:instrument \on-the-fly #print-page-number-check-first \bookpart-page-number } oddFooterMarkup = \markup \fill-line { \on-the-fly #part-last-page \fromproperty #'header:parttagline } evenHeaderMarkup = \markup \fill-line { \on-the-fly #print-page-number-check-first \bookpart-page-number \on-the-fly #not-first-page \fromproperty #'header:instrument } evenFooterMarkup = \markup \fill-line { \on-the-fly #part-last-page \fromproperty #'header:parttagline } } \header { title = \markup { \lower #40 \column \center-align { \fontsize #4 \bold "Title line" \lower #2 \fontsize #3 "Poet line" \lower #4 \fontsize #2 "Instrument line" \lower #5 \fontsize #-3 "composer_line_____20________30________40________50________60________70_____ ___80" \lower #8 \fontsize #2 "Meter line" \lower #8 \fontsize #2 "Arranger line" } } tagline = ##f } \markup \null \bookpart { \header { title = \markup "Title goes here" parttagline = \markup { \center-align \fontsize #-3.5 { \center-align { \fill-line { "" "Typeset by me" "" \date "" \copywrite "" } } } } } \score { {s1*50} \layout { \context { } } } } %=========================================================================== ==== Nick > -----Original Message----- > From: lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on....@gnu.org > [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+nick.payne=internode.on....@gnu.org] On > Behalf Of Robin Bannister > Sent: Monday, 9 February 2009 21:11 > To: Zbyněk Burget; Lilypond > Subject: Re: long text in "composer" / invisible TimeSignature > > Zbyněk Burget wrote: > > Splitting it onto two lines is unavailing. Therefore i want way to > > expanding width of this line. > > The default layout puts poet, instrument and composer all on one line. > This is not compatible with the length of your composer text. > Even if instrument is unused, its (centred) layout is still active and > this obstructs leftward expansion of the composer text. > > If you want to stay close to what the default offers, you could move > the composer field down onto its own line: > i.e. insert "" } \fill-line { "" into bookTitleMarkup > using the technique suggested in NR 3.2.2. > > Cheers, > Robin > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.19/1940 - Release Date: > 02/08/09 17:57:00 _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user