I've done a number of scores where I'm having extra stanzas of lyrics added
either directly after the last staff of music, or, more frequently, on a
separate page. Either way, I use the \string-lines command. It has the
advantage of accepting an entire paragraph, and going along with the
existing line breaks. Makes things easy when doing a copy and paste. The
full description from the official docs:
\string-lines strg (string)
Takes the string strg and splits it at the character provided by the
property split-char, defaulting to #\newline. Surrounding whitespace is
removed from every resulting string. The returned list of markups is ready
to be formatted by other markup or markup list commands like \column, \line,
etc.
\markup { \column \string-lines "foo, foo, bar, bar,
buzz, buzz!"}
[image: [image of music]]
<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/ef/lily-b9cbbfb1.ly>
Used properties:
- split-char (#\newline)
And for reference, the part of the official docs you'll want to have a look
at are A.12 (
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/text-markup-commands )
and A.13 (
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/text-markup-list-commands
) of the Notation Reference. The \string-lines command comes from A.13
One caveat about the \string-lines command I discovered by trying to get it
to do something - if you want blank lines between sections of text, just
entering extra new lines in the text won't work. Which I would have
realized if I'd read the description a bit more carefully. Instead, you'll
need something like:
\column { \small
\string-lines
"1. I wonder as I wander out under the sky how Jesus my
saviour did come for to die; for
poor orn'ry people like you and like I, I wonder as I wander ... out under
the sky." }
\vspace #1
\column { \small
\string-lines
"2. When Mary birthed Jesus, 'twas is a cow's stall, with
wisemen and farmers and shepherds and all
But high from God's heaven a star's light did fall, and the promise of ages
... it then did recall." }
The \vspace gives the vertical space between stanzas.
Well, hopefully this might help. Or at least give you some ideas that might
get you where you want to be.
Michael
On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 7:15 PM Alasdair McAndrew <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a paragraph of descriptive text that I'd like to display in a box.
> Currently I have:
>
> \markup \small \box \wordwrap {
> .... several lines of text here ...
> }
>
> This works quite well, except that I'd like to modify some of the line
> breaks. I could probably do this by either specifying the text as a list
> of lines (which I'm not sure how to do: that is, a list of lines all
> surrounded by a single box).
>
> But in fact it would be easier to simply insert a "hard break" in the text
> where I want it. Is this possible? I know how to add a break to a score,
> but I can't find if there's an equivalent for text.
>
> And where would I go looking for this - where can I find a comprehensive
> list of all text commands accepted by lilypond?
>
> Many thanks,
> Alasdair
>
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>
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