Re: Changing font of "Table of Contents"

[Nicolas Sceaux]

Le 26 avr. 09 à 01:38, Nick Payne a écrit :

> I'm putting together a book of pieces, and using a particular font for
> headers, footers, titles, subtitles, etc. The one place where I  
> haven't
> figured out how to get that font used is for the header text for the  
> table
> of contents that Lilypond creates. Each tocItem has the font I want  
> by using
> \override #'(font-name etc, but how do I change the font for the  
> actual text
> "Table of Contents" that Lilypond inserts corresponding to the  
> \markuplines
> \table-of-contents in the ly source.
>
> I tried using
>
> \markuplines {
>         \override #'(font-name . "SpectrumMT SC")
>         \table-of-contents
> }
>
> In the same way as inside \markup blocks, but that doesn't parse  
> correctly
> and gives errors.

Patrick already answered, but here are some extra information about
why you get an error.

\table-of-content is a markup-list command, that is, it does not build
a single markup, but a list of markups (in that case, the table of  
content
title and lines). \override is a markup command which second argument  
shall
be a markup, not a markup list, and which returns a single markup, not a
markup list.

You should instead use \override-lines, which is like \override, but  
accepts
a markup list as its second parameter, and returns a markup list.

Markup lists were introduced to make a piece of text spread over several
pages; indeed, a markup is a solid block, which must be placed on a  
single page,
whereas a long table of contents may spread over several pages.

nicolas