Lemzwerg: New category

2025-11-21T23:12:42Z

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

2025-11-16T18:47:27Z

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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	<lilypond version="2.24.0" full>		<lilypond version="2.24" full>
	%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=464		%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=464

Jean Abou Samra: Import snippet from LSR

2025-10-26T22:42:24Z

Import snippet from LSR

New page

One can use <code>\markup \fill-line { \column { "line1" "line2" ... } \column { "line1" "line2" ... } }</code> to create text markup in multiple columns (for example, writing out the text of various stanzas after the score). However, the column widths are calculated from the contents, so columns from different markups are not aligned with each other.<br />
However, one can write a <code>\columns</code> macro, which makes each column exactly 1/n of the line-width, thus aligning even columns of different markups. The syntax stays the same, only that one has to use <code>\columns</code> instead of <code>\fill-line</code>:

<pre>\markup \columns {
\column{"default column 1" "line 2"}
\column{"column 2, wider than the rest" "line 2"}
\column{"c 3" "line 2"}
}</pre>

<lilypond version="2.24.0" full>
%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=464

\paper { tagline = ##f }

\header{ title= "Aligning columns from different markups" }

#(define-markup-command (columns layout props args) (markup-list?)
(let ((line-width (/ (chain-assoc-get 'line-width props
(ly:output-def-lookup layout 'line-width))
(max (length args) 1))))
(interpret-markup layout props
(make-line-markup (map (lambda (line)
(markup #:pad-to-box `(0 . ,line-width) '(0 . 0)
#:override `(line-width . ,line-width)
line))
args)))))

\markup \justify {
The default "\fill-line" uses columns, where the width is
calculated from the contents. This means that two markups
don't align their columns:
}

\markup \fill-line {
\column { "default column 1" "line 2" }
\column { "column 2, wider than the rest" "line 2" }
\column { "c 3" "line 2" }
}
\markup \fill-line {
\column { "col 1" "line 2" }
\column{ "col 2" "line 2" }
\column{ "Here, column 3 is wider." "line 2" }
}

\markup \fill-line {
\column { "short" "line 2" }
\column { "Long text, long text" "line 2" }
\column { "another very long column text" "line 2" }
}

\markup \justify {
However, one can write a "\columns" macro, which makes each column
exactly 1/n of the line-width, thus aligning even columns of different
markups:
}

\markup \columns {
\column { "default column 1" "line 2" }
\column { "column 2, wider than the rest" "line 2" }
\column { "c 3" "line 2" }
}
\markup \columns {
\column { "col 1" "line 2" }
\column { "col 2" "line 2" }
\column { "Here, column 3 is wider" "line 2" }
}
\markup \columns {
\column { "short" "line 2"}
\column { "Long text, long text" "line 2" }
\column {"another very long column text" "line 2" }
}
</lilypond>

[[Category:Text]]
[[Category:Paper and layout]]
[[Category:Spacing]]

Aligning columns from different markups - Revision history

Lemzwerg: New category

Lemzwerg at 22:46, 21 November 2025

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

Jean Abou Samra: Import snippet from LSR