Re: Musical theater headers

[Paul Scott]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 05:43:29PM +0000, Daniel Rosen wrote:
> > -----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
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > > 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:

I use \markup\fill-line{ "left" "center" "right" }

for what I think you want.  I have made substitute parts for parts with that 
same format.

HTH

Paul Scott

> 
> \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
> 
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