Re: centred piece titles

[Jamie Bullock]

Dear David,

Thanks for the detailed and informative reply. Unfortunately when I try
adding scoreTitleMarkup = ... to the \paper block, I get errors along
the lines of:

 error: unknown escaped string: `\fromproperty':
    \fromproperty
                  #'header:piece

I am using version 2.4.5. I guess I need to upgrade to a more recent
version?

Jamie


On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 12:11 -0800, David Rogers wrote:
> Jamie Bullock wrote:
> 
> >Looking at the archives, this seems to have come up before, but I can't
> >seem to get a working solution. What is the best way to get the titles
> >of movements centred? At the moment I am using "\book \score \header
> >{ piece = "piece1"}" as outlined in the manual to seperate movements,
> >but of course this gives left-aligned formatting.
> 
> A simple way is to use the subtitle (or even the subsubtitle) slot for
> the piece name, assuming one of those slots is still free.
> 
> If you want to take total control, you can change all the settings in a
> single book by adding bookTitleMarkup and scoreTitleMarkup commands to
> the \paper block, which will override Lilypond's defaults. It took me
> some time to figure out how to read and modify this setup, but after
> some trial and error, I got the hang of it. Watch out for which ending
> brackets belong to a \column, and which belong to a \fill-line! (A
> \fill-line with two items puts the first one on the far left of the
> page, and the other on the far right.)
> 
> 
> (Note - I believe the baseline-skip property shown here only applies if
> a single element is so long as to require a line break. It doesn't
> change spacing between elements.)
> 
> 
> The defaults that lilypond 2.5.17 uses to format title positions are:
> 
> \paper{
> 
> bookTitleMarkup = \markup {
>   \override #'(baseline-skip . 3)
>   \column {
>     \fill-line { \fromproperty #'header:dedication }
>     \column {
>       \override #'(baseline-skip . 3.5)
>       \huge \bigger \bold
>       \fill-line {
>     \bigger \fromproperty #'header:title
>       }
>       \fill-line {
>     \large \smaller \bold
>     \bigger  \fromproperty #'header:subtitle
>       }
>       \fill-line {
>     \smaller \bold
>     \fromproperty #'header:subsubtitle
>       }
>       \fill-line {
>     \fromproperty #'header:poet
>     { \large \bold \fromproperty #'header:instrument }
>     \column {
>       \fromproperty #'header:composer
>       \fromproperty #'header:arranger
>     }
>       }
>     }
>   }
> }
> 
> scoreTitleMarkup = \markup {
>   \fill-line {
>     \fromproperty #'header:piece
>     \fromproperty #'header:opus
>   }
> }
> 
> }