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Re: Title for a part?


From: Mats Bengtsson
Subject: Re: Title for a part?
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 19:48:11 +0200

> On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 11:22:13AM -0400, Laura Conrad wrote:
> > 
> >                         V.
> > 
> > Loure der                       |notes for the first part
> > gesitteten Houyhnhnms           |
> > 
> > Furie der unartigen Yahoos      |notes for the second part
> > 
> > 
> > It looks like the instrument names truncate rather than wrapping.  Is
> > there a good way to tell lily to do something like my printed copy?
> 
> My guess would be to try making the instrument name something like 
> "Loure der\\ gesitteten Houyhnhnms" or
> "Loure der\\\\ gesitteten Houyhnhnms"
> 
> Which would insert TeX linebreaks in the instrument name.  I'm not sure
> which of the above would be correct, if either.

That's not a good idea since Lilypond will get the correctly
wrong impression on how wide the text is which results in 
the wrong horizontal position. The recommended solution is to 
use the text markup mechanism in Lilypond. An example can be
found in input/test/coriolan-margin.ly. The same mechanism 
can be used to select the desired font.

   /Mats



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