Re: header and page numbers

[David Bobroff]

Herbert,

Thank you, it did exactly what I needed!

David

Lilypond Mailing List wrote:
> This snippet works for me:
> have songTitel and myName (like "by MySelf") defined and use:
>
> oddHeaderMarkup = \markup
> \fill-line {
>  %% force the header to take some space, otherwise the
>  %% page layout becomes a complete mess.
>  \on-the-fly #print-page-number-check-first \fromproperty 
> #'page:page-number-string
>  \on-the-fly #not-first-page { \normalsize \songTitel
>                  \tiny \myName
>              }
>   % it is filled... " "
> }
>
> evenHeaderMarkup = \markup
> \fill-line {
>  \on-the-fly #print-page-number-check-first \fromproperty 
> #'page:page-number-string
>  \on-the-fly #not-first-page { \normalsize \songTitel
>                  \tiny \myName
>                  }
> }
>
> Hope that helps
> Herbert
>
> > As for getting the title instead of the instrument as a running header 
> > after page one I tried editing titling-init.ly to change:
> >
> > oddHeaderMarkup = \markup
> > \fill-line {
> >   %% force the header to take some space, otherwise the
> >   %% page layout becomes a complete mess.
> >   " "
> >   \on-the-fly #not-first-page \fromproperty #'header:instrument
> >   \on-the-fly #print-page-number-check-first \fromproperty 
> > #'page:page-number-string
> > }
> >
> > evenHeaderMarkup = \markup
> > \fill-line {
> >   \on-the-fly #print-page-number-check-first \fromproperty 
> > #'page:page-number-string
> >   \on-the-fly #not-first-page \fromproperty #'header:instrument
> >   " "
> > }
> >
> > ...by changing #'header:instrument to #'header:title
> >
> > It didn't work.  The odd/even HeaderMarkup simply disappeared.