Hi Michael,
So far I’ve only been able to assign the column of text to the
instrument name, but it’s WAY to big and spaced out. I tried to find
the commands to tweak the instrument name in the reference manuals,
but I just couldn’t figure it out. I need to tweak the size of the
font, the vertical scale (assuming the characters are evenly spaced
vertically) and the position. Can anyone help out a hapless newbie?
Maybe something like this?
\version "2.21.80"
\layout {
indent = 5
}
#(define-markup-command (unit-height layout props arg) (markup?)
(let* ((stil (interpret-markup layout props arg))
(x (ly:stencil-extent stil 0)))
(interpret-markup layout props
(make-with-dimensions-markup x '(-0.5 . 0.5)
(markup #:general-align 1 0 arg)))))
#(define-markup-command (unit-height-column layout props args)
(markup-list?)
(interpret-markup layout props #{
\markup {
\override #'(baseline-skip . 0)
\center-column \unit-height #args
} #}))
\new Staff \with {
\override StaffSymbol.line-count = 12
instrumentName = \markup {
\override #'(font-size . -10)
\unit-height-column { First second third fourth fifth sixth seventh
eighth ninth tenth eleventh } } }
{ a'4 }
The command \unit-height forces a markup to have Y dimension exactly
-0.5 to 0.5 (hence, one staff space), no matter its actual size.
\unit-height-column the given elements in a (horizontally centered)
column, stacked without padding between the lines.
Lukas
