Re: Some text formatting advice

2018-07-23 Thread Urs Liska
Am 23.07.2018 um 15:25 schrieb Torsten Hämmerle: Urs Liska-3 wrote Now I'll "only" have to find a reliable way of referring the block text formatting to LaTeX (and in a way that it looks consistent with the remaining text ... Yes, LaTeX adds a new level of complexity (at least as far as cons

Re: Some text formatting advice

2018-07-23 Thread Torsten Hämmerle
Urs Liska-3 wrote > Now I'll "only" have to find a reliable way of referring the block text > formatting to LaTeX (and in a way that it looks consistent with the > remaining text ... Yes, LaTeX adds a new level of complexity (at least as far as consistent typography is concerned), but after all

Re: Some text formatting advice

2018-07-23 Thread Urs Liska
Am 23.07.2018 um 14:58 schrieb Torsten Hämmerle: Urs Liska-3 wrote In a combination with staff-padding it is possible to vertically align TextScript markups by their baseline. Well, this only works sort-of, namely when there's no music above the staff. In this modified excerpt you can see th

Re: Some text formatting advice

2018-07-23 Thread Torsten Hämmerle
Urs Liska-3 wrote >> In a combination with staff-padding it is possible to vertically align >> TextScript markups by their baseline. > > Well, this only works sort-of, namely when there's no music above the > staff. > > In this modified excerpt you can see that the text abvoe the first bar > is

Re: Some text formatting advice

2018-07-23 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Torsten, thank you for these ideas, which bring me further - but admittedly not over the goal line yet. Am 23.07.2018 um 13:02 schrieb Torsten Hämmerle: Hi Urs, There is one magic command called \textLengthOn that might be of great help in this case. With \textLengthOn, the width of mea

Re: Some text formatting advice

2018-07-23 Thread Torsten Hämmerle
Hi Urs, There is one magic command called \textLengthOn that might be of great help in this case. With \textLengthOn, the width of measures will be increased depending on the markup without vertical shifting around and stacking on top of each other. In a combination with staff-padding it is poss

Re: Some text formatting advice

2018-07-21 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Urs, I have been wanting a way to specify an absolute width for measures since I started using lilypond. It would be great to have this. But I fear it will never be forthcoming. I understand this is difficult if not impossible. Although I personally think it is a sort of musical abuse of what