Re: Markup Query

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Gentry" <address@hidden>
To: "'Phil Holmes'" <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 12:20 PM
Subject: RE: Markup Query


> Phil
>
> I want the result to be as the first, ie one text string centred on the 
> page.
>
> I realise that the first example achieves this- however in general I would 
> like to be able to concatonate
> data into one string that I could centre on the page without having to 
> manually calculate the required hspace. The second syntax
> does this but splits up the components of the string and spaces then on 
> new lines.

This should do what you want.

date = "01-02-2012"
\markup {
\fill-line {
  \concat { "Engraved " \bold \date " with " \with-url 
#"http://lilypond.org/"; "LilyPond " \simple #(lilypond-version) " 
(http://lilypond.org/)" }
 }

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Phil Holmes