Re: bookTitleMarkup to fill exactly one page (with stretching!) and contain page breaks

[Ralph Palmer]

Greetings, Reinhold -

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer
<address@hidden>wrote:

> For my instrumental scores, I need to create a proper title page using
> bookTitleMarkup. Unfortunately, there are several problems:
>
> -) The lines of the markup are never stretched to be spaced evenly on the
> page
>
> -) If you use hardcoded vertical distances between the lines, the footer
> line
> will be placed either too high or two low, depending on whether some header
> fields use one or two lines
>
> -) There is no page break possible inside the bookTitleMarkup, so you have
> to
> manually add a \pageBreak\allowPageTurn right before the score.
>
> -) The normal title markup can only be generated by abusing the
> scoreTitleMarkup field.
>
>
> Attached is a sample score showing these problems: In one score the
> instrument
> name takes up just one line, in the other score it takes three lines. As a
> consequence, the publisher footer line on the title page is either way too
> much up or way too much down on the page...
>
> Is there any way to create the bookTitleMarkup in a way that
>
> 1) allows page breaks in between (i.e. on the second page there should be
> the
> "normal" title markup
>
> 2) the contents of the title page are stretched, so that one does not have
> to
> use explicit \vspace{..}, which does not work at all.
>
> Thanks,
> Reinhold
>
>
This has been added to the tracker as issue 1443 :
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1443

Pondly,

Ralph