I've encountered a similar situation while transcribing Cherubini's
counterpoint treaty: the most reliable and sane way for me was to write the
document down with a TeX processor (LuaLaTex + lylua). Going full Lilypond
on musical documents is really difficult, specially when notation isn't the
main factor... But at least we can freely choose what software and strategy
to use!

Em seg., 19 de jan. de 2026, 14:50, Gabriel Ellsworth <
[email protected]> escreveu:

> I am transcribing the following source (screenshot):
> [image: image.png]
>
> My draft transcription is attached.
>
> A few questions:
>
>
>    1. Is there any way to make \wordwrap smart enough to wrap around the
>    recitingTone score markup? Cf. how, in the source, we see the text
>    left-justified beginning from the words “grant, we beseech thee.”
>    2. Probably the same question as the previous: Is it possible to wrap
>    the “amen” score markup under the running text of the collect?
>    3. I currently am using \override #'(line-width . 85) — but is it
>    possible to make that value “smart” so that this entire markup block fills
>    the width of my page? I would like it to be the case that if I change my
>    page margins, the horizontal width of this markup block will automatically
>    update, but \fill-line is not currently working.
>
> In sum, the overall goals here are the following.
>
>
>    1. Minimize the vertical space occupied by my \markuplist.
>    2. Have the whole block automatically fill the page width/margins.
>
>

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