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Re: creating a centred column of markups


From: -Eluze
Subject: Re: creating a centred column of markups
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:15:56 -0800 (PST)

amazing what Lilypond achieves just with simple commands! =) 
http://www.nabble.com/file/p20705128/left-aligned%2Bcenter.pdf
left-aligned+center.pdf 


Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> 
> 
>> but now i'm suspicious you to want it really
>> and automatically centered, isn't it?!
> 
> Yes!  =)
> Kieren.
> 
> 

\version "2.11.64"
\markup {
        \fill-line { 
                \null
                \column {
                        \fontsize #2 \override #'(font-family . medium) { "When 
You Are Old and
Grey" }
                        \left-align
                        " " 
                        "When you are old and grey and full of sleep,"
                        "And nodding by the fire, take down this book," 
                        "And slowly read, and dream of the soft look" 
                        "Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep."
                        "" 
                        "How many loved your moments of glad grace" 
                        "And loved your beauty with love false or true,"
                        "But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,"
                        "And loved the sorrows of your changing face." 
                        "" 
                        "And bending down beside the glowing bars," 
                        "Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled" 
                        "And paced upon the mountain overhead" 
                        "And hid his face amid a crowd of stars." 
                        " " 
                        \hspace #20 "— William Butler Yeats (1893)" 
                        }
                \null
                }
        }

-Eluze 
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