Re: wrapping long textual markup

[John Williams]

On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> This is a tricky question. If I understand you correctly,
> you want something like:
>
>             First line of text, text text text text text
> music music music music music music music music music music
>
> the text continues here over the second line of music.
> music music music music music music music music music music

You understand me correctly.

> ... you could use inline LaTeX to typeset the
> text in a box of fixed width, but the problem is to know
> what width to use if the sonnet doesn't start at the
> beginning of a movement but somewhere in the middle.

Even then, I could end up with:

                                                      First
                                                      line of
                                                      text,
                                                      etc etc
music music music music music music music music music music

> Of course, a clumsy solution to your problem is to hard-code
> the line breaks of the music using \break commands and then
> splitting the sonnet into several text scripts, one for each
> line. This will of course be more troublesome if you want it
> typeset both in the score and in the separate parts.
>
> In principle, Lilypond has all the knowledge needed to do
> the requested line breaking, it's just a matter of implementing
> the mechanism.

I don't mind hacking at it a bit.  But since lilypond is mixture
of 4+ languages, it would be helpful if you could point me in
the right direction...

~ John Williams