Re: Mixing text and notation

[Nicolas Sceaux]

"Nicolas Prömper"<address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I want to include a short text in a score (a kind of preamble) with an
> advanced formatting. I'd like to use a word processing to create and
> format the text, and include the result in my score.
>
> I know, that there is a way to do it vice versa; include lilypond
> notation in LaTex. But as I'm not very confident with LaText and I
> have only one short paragraph of text to include (and the formatting
> of markup is not sufficient) I tried to find a way to inlcude
> postscript or anything similiar.
>
> Can anyone please give me a hint?!

Why not let LilyPond take care of this?
Have you Read The Fine Manual, section 8.1.4 Text Markup?

  Text can also be placed on its own, away from any \score block.

  \markup{ Here is some text. }