RE: Midstring markup

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Anthony Youngman <address@hidden>:

> 3. From what I can make out, lilypond's markup language can only 
> handle WORDS, not TEXT (as has been evidenced by people complaining 
> that lilypond strips out any attempts at spacing. It's all very well 
> having to place each word individually, but what do you then do if 
> you want to change the font size?)

That's not true. You have some markup commands like \wordwrap-string
that handles several lines of text. See the section on "Multiple 
Stanzas" for a simple example.

  /Mats