Aligning and centering instrument names (advanced) - Revision history

Lemzwerg: New category

2025-11-21T23:13:43Z

New category

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Lemzwerg at 22:46, 21 November 2025

2025-11-21T22:46:54Z

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Jean Abou Samra: Replace version="2.24.0" with version="2.24" now that the LilyWiki extension supports auto-selecting the latest release in a stable series

2025-11-16T18:45:43Z

Replace version="2.24.0" with version="2.24" now that the LilyWiki extension supports auto-selecting the latest release in a stable series

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	Here is an advanced macro to produce automatically centered instrument names: use \instrument for a single line instrument name, and \instruments for a multi line instrument name.		Here is an advanced macro to produce automatically centered instrument names: use \instrument for a single line instrument name, and \instruments for a multi line instrument name.

	<lilypond version="2.24.0">		<lilypond version="2.24">
	%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=383		%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=383

Jean Abou Samra: Import snippet from LSR

2025-10-26T22:41:06Z

Import snippet from LSR

New page

Here is an advanced macro to produce automatically centered instrument names: use \instrument for a single line instrument name, and \instruments for a multi line instrument name.

<lilypond version="2.24.0">
%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=383

% This code was originally contributed by Nicolas Sceaux, for LilyPond 2.11.38 and above

#(define-markup-command (hcenter-pad layout props width arg)
(number? markup?)
(let* ((arg-stencil (interpret-markup layout props arg))
(w (interval-length (ly:stencil-extent arg-stencil X)))
(pad-stencil (ly:make-stencil ""
(cons 0 (if (> w width)
0
(/ (- width w) 2.0)))
'(-0.1 . 0.1))))
(stack-stencil-line 0
(list pad-stencil arg-stencil pad-stencil))))

#(define-markup-command (instruments layout props texts) (markup-list?)
(let ((indent (ly:output-def-lookup layout 'indent)))
(interpret-markup layout props
(make-column-markup
(map (lambda (m) (markup #:hcenter-pad indent #:huge m))
texts)))))

#(define-markup-command (instrument layout props text) (markup?)
(interpret-markup layout props
(markup #:instruments (text))))

\score {
\new StaffGroup <<
\new Staff <<
\set Staff . instrumentName = \markup \instrument Violons
{ c'4 d' e' f' g'1 }
>>
\new Staff <<
\set Staff . instrumentName = \markup \instruments { Haute-
contres Tailles }
{ \clef alto c'4 d' e' f' g'1 }
>>
\new Staff <<
\set Staff . instrumentName = \markup \instrument Basses
{ \clef bass c4 c c g, c1 }
>>
>>
\layout { indent = 4\cm }
}
</lilypond>

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