Re: Why a \score inside \markup doesn't allow breaks?

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Risto:

> Yeah. That's probably the original intention. However, I had to write
> a two page song (luckily no longer than that), which had a column of
> text (lyrics) on the left side and the music on the right side. It was
> quite a PITA to split the music into several \score blocks. :-(
>
> That made me wonder if there had been an easier way.

When I had that same issue (in a recent play-with-music I wrote), I  
simply set the line-width to half a page, and used \markup for the  
text/lyrics.
You can hang the \markup off anything you want — I used the  
InstrumentName of an un-named StaffGroup.

Hope this helps!
Kieren.