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Lemzwerg: Lemzwerg moved page Right-aligned and centered Text to Right-aligned and centered text without leaving a redirect: Only the first letter of a title should be uppercase

2025-11-24T05:42:55Z

Lemzwerg moved page Right-aligned and centered Text to Right-aligned and centered text without leaving a redirect: Only the first letter of a title should be uppercase

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Lemzwerg: New category

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New category

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Lemzwerg at 22:59, 21 November 2025

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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

2025-11-16T18:54:21Z

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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	If you want to format a long text to be right-aligned or centered, set the text's line-width as appropriate and use the new commands <code>\textRight</code> or <code>\textCenter</code> as defined here. (To format left-aligned use common <code>\wordwrap</code>.)		If you want to format a long text to be right-aligned or centered, set the text's line-width as appropriate and use the new commands <code>\textRight</code> or <code>\textCenter</code> as defined here. (To format left-aligned use common <code>\wordwrap</code>.)

	<lilypond version="2.24.0">		<lilypond version="2.24">
	%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=765		%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=765

Jean Abou Samra: Import snippet from LSR

2025-10-26T22:44:36Z

Import snippet from LSR

New page

If you want to format a long text to be right-aligned or centered, set the text's line-width as appropriate and use the new commands <code>\textRight</code> or <code>\textCenter</code> as defined here. (To format left-aligned use common <code>\wordwrap</code>.)

<lilypond version="2.24.0">
%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=765

% Defines right-aligned and centered long text with the possibility to set the baseline-skip as required.
% Code is taken from ./scm/define-mark-up-commands.scm and just slightly modified.
% Author: harm6 from the german lilypondforum

#(define (general-column align-dir baseline mols)
(let* ((aligned-mols (map (lambda (x) (ly:stencil-aligned-to x X align-dir)) mols)))
(stack-lines -1 0.0 baseline aligned-mols)))

#(define-markup-command (textRight layout props args)(markup-list?)
#:properties ((baseline-skip))
(general-column RIGHT baseline-skip (wordwrap-internal-markup-list layout props #f args)))

#(define-markup-command (textCenter layout props args)(markup-list?)
#:properties ((baseline-skip))
(general-column CENTER baseline-skip (wordwrap-internal-markup-list layout props #f args)))

% ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

% example

\markup {
\column {
\fill-line {
\null
\override #'(baseline-skip . 4)
\override #'(line-width . 40)\textRight {
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed
do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco
laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.}
}

\null\null\null

\fill-line {
\null
\override #'(baseline-skip . 6)
\override #'(line-width . 40)\textCenter {
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed
do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco
laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.}
\null
}

\null\null\null

% common wordwrap:
\fill-line {
\override #'(line-width . 40)\wordwrap {
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed
do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco
laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.}
\null
}
}
}
</lilypond>

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