Re: get space left in markup function

2019-05-04 Thread Robert Kubosz
Thanks for your response, Andrew. I really hoped that somehow I could create the snaking columns in my book just using lilypond. It was the very last thing I needed to create a nice book and to finish my typesetting work. I know LaTeX, I wrote some things in it. I will check out lyluatex. -- Sen

Re: get space left in markup function

2019-05-02 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hello Robert, It seems to me wishful thinking to try to get inside the machinery of the markup commands to do your own custom layout. What you are after is what I refer to as newspaper columns, or snaking columns they are sometimes called. This properly belongs to the domain of powerful text proce

Re: get space left in markup function

2019-05-02 Thread Robert Kubosz
Hmm, maybe I will introduce you to the problem I am now tackling and why I need to know the available free space in markup command. I'm modifying the book template shared by Nicolas Sceaux. Now I'm working on table of contents. The table of contents looks beautiful on one condition: sections don't

Re: get space left in markup function

2019-05-01 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Kubosz writes: > Hello! > > I have a markup function and inside this function I need to know how much > free space is left on page. (The space left parameter displayed with > annotate-spacing = ##t). Can anyone tell me how to get this parameter in > markup function? At the time markups ar