RE: Musical theater headers

[Daniel Rosen]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kieren MacMillan [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 11:26 AM
> To: Daniel Rosen
> Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Musical theater headers
> 
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> > I'm engraving pit parts for a new musical
> 
> Welcome to the club!  =)

Thanks! :)

> > and one of the arrangers has given me this note: "To follow convention,
> the song number should be in large type in a box in the top-right corner of
> the first page of the song. Players expect this and it will help them to 
> locate
> the song quickly." He references the attached example as a model.
> 
> 1. Yuck.  ;)
> 
> 2. Yes, this header block is found in various scores/parts... but really, 
> there is
> no "standard", as one sees when one MDs as many shows as I do.
> 
> > To those of you who use LilyPond for musical theater, do you do this with
> your parts?
> 
> No. My headers are inspired by the [more elegant, IMO] model of Boosey &
> Hawkes "West Side Story" (1959 etc., not the less-attractive 2000 edition).
> 
> > If not, what would be the best way to achieve it?]
> 
> It would be easy to duplicate this with a set of custom titles and header
> variables.

I've been trying to do that for the past half-hour or so, and it's not working 
the way I want it to. My header block is:

\version "2.18.0"
\header {
  piece = "Piece"
  number = "#"
  instrument = "Instrument"
  date = "01/01/0101"
  composer = "Composer"
}

Right now I'm just trying to focus on getting everything in the right place 
before I start changing font sizes and stuff. I'm envisioning three columns, 
with the left column left-aligned, the center column centered, and the right 
column right-aligned.

instrument | null  | date
number     | piece | null
null       | null  | composer