Re: How to do custom titles

[Daniel Johnson]

I do a fair amount of chant settings and arrangements.  Using Lilypond 
2.5.3, I've managed to define my own page layouts, using 
/usr/share/lilypond/2.5.3/ly/titling-init.ly as a model; this should 
work with the 2.4 series also.  The following goes at the top of my 
files (actually I include an external file, but this is the gist of it):

\paper{
   #(set-paper-size "letter")
   topmargin = 0.5\in
   leftmargin = 0.75\in
   linewidth = 7\in
   bookTitleMarkup = \markup {
       \column {
           \fill-line { \override #'(font-name . "ptmr") { \override 
#'(font-magnification . 3) \fromproperty #'header:title     } }
           \fill-line { \override #'(baseline-skip . 3)
                   \fill-line { \override #'(font-name . "ptmr") { 
\override #'(font-magnification . 2.5) \fromproperty #'header:subtitle } }
           }
           \fill-line {
               \column {
                   \left-align \override #'(font-name . "ptmr") { 
\override #'(font-magnification . 1.2) \fromproperty #'header:chantsource }
                   \left-align \override #'(font-name . "ptmr") { 
\override #'(font-magnification . 1.2) \fromproperty 
#'header:specialmelody }
                   \left-align \override #'(font-name . "ptmr") { 
\override #'(font-magnification . 1.2) \fromproperty #'header:textsource }
               }
               \column {
                   \right-align \override #'(font-name . "ptmr") { 
\override #'(font-magnification . 1.2) \fromproperty #'header:composer }
                   \right-align \override #'(font-name . "ptmr") { 
\override #'(font-magnification . 1.2) \fromproperty 
#'header:composerdates }
                   \right-align \override #'(font-name . "ptmr") { 
\override #'(font-magnification . 1.2) \fromproperty #'header:arranger }
                   \right-align \override #'(font-name . "ptmr") { 
\override #'(font-magnification . 1.2) \fromproperty 
#'header:arrangerdates }
               }
           }
       }
   }
%  ... similar definitions for scoreTitleMarkup, odd/evenHeaderMarkup, 
odd/evenFooterMarkup ...
}

Note that I've defined my own custom header properties.  This makes my 
music files rather un-portable but it makes generating output for my 
specialized needs much easier.  If I'm not mistaken the mutopia project 
also uses custom-defined header properties.  (For the curious, the 
"ptmr" font is Adobe Times; to get proper PDF output I've had to use 
lilypond-latex.)

As an aside, when you use a text font other than the default (which is 
Computer Modern, the original TeX font developed by Donald Knuth), I 
believe that lilypond currently uses Computer Modern for computing 
metrics, so center- or right-aligned text may appear a bit ragged.

Hope this helps.

--d

Sven Axelsson wrote:

> Hello List.
>
> This question is for Lilypond 2.4.2.
>
> Does it really have to be so complicated to do custom titles? In version 2.2.5
> it was possible to just change titledefs.tex but that doesn't seem to work
> anymore. I understand that you are supposed to write a (fairly complicated)
> Scheme procedure to do this, but how do I hook it so it is used?
>
> I'm trying this now:
>
> \include "bagpipe-title.scm"
> \layout {
>  #(define-public book-title bagpipe-book-title)
>  #(define-public score-title bagpipe-book-title)
> }
>
> where bagpipe-title.scm at the moment is exactly the same as the definintions
> for opera music that can be found in the list archive. But this doesn't work -
> the custom definitions are not used. And, yes, I *do* want the book-title and
> score-title to look the same.
>
>