Re: Multi-column text

2011-08-05 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Donnerstag, 4. August 2011, 00:49:11 schrieb Christopher R. Maden: > On 08/03/2011 06:07 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > > Nope, Lilypond doesn't try to be a full text layout application. You > > cannot do multi-column text with automatic line- and > > column-breaking.

Re: Multi-column text

2011-08-05 Thread coffer
application. You >> cannot do multi-column text with automatic line- and >> column-breaking. >> >> I am using Latex for such things like preface, lyrics and >> translations (Initially I tried to use lilypond, that's why I wrote >> that other snippet that Harm

Re: Multi-column text

2011-08-03 Thread Christopher R. Maden
On 08/03/2011 06:07 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > Nope, Lilypond doesn't try to be a full text layout application. You > cannot do multi-column text with automatic line- and > column-breaking. > > I am using Latex for such things like preface, lyrics and > translations (I

Re: Multi-column text

2011-08-03 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
column multi-page flow without explicit breaking? Nope, Lilypond doesn't try to be a full text layout application. You cannot do multi-column text with automatic line- and column-breaking. I am using Latex for such things like preface, lyrics and translations (Initially I tried to use lilyp

Re: Multi-column text

2011-08-03 Thread harm6
Christopher R. Maden wrote: > > I can’t figure out how to actually get multiple columns > Hi, check http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=464 LSR-Snippet 464 Cheers, Harm -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Multi-column-text-tp32189675p32190224.html Sent

Multi-column text

2011-08-03 Thread Christopher R. Maden
I have made a nice little book of the Irish tunes I know. The problem is that many of these tunes have many names, so I made an index giving all the known names. If I use \markup and \column, I have to manually break lines and columns, which is a bit of a pain in the neck: \markup { \f