Re: Centered Paragraphs

[Thomas Morley]

2014-06-11 5:00 GMT+02:00 Jay Anderson <address@hidden>:
> My main goal is to have some simple indented paragraphs which don't
> take the full width and are centered horizontally. With a syntax
> something like this:
>
> \markuplist
> {
>   \paragraph
>   {
>     Some text
>   }
>   \vspace #0.6
>
>   \paragraph
>   {
>     Some more text
>   }
> }
>
> Any idea how to cause the paragraph command (from here:
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/extending/new-markup-list-command-definition)
> to center the paragraph?
>
> I can make it more narrow:
>
> #(define-markup-list-command (paragraph layout props args) (markup-list?)
>   #:properties ((par-indent 2))
>   (interpret-markup-list layout props
>     #{
>       \markuplist \override-lines #'(line-width . 80)
>       \justified-lines
>       {
>         \hspace #par-indent #args
>       }
>     #}))
>
> But this keeps the text on the left edge of the page. All of my
> attempts have failed. The mismatch between markuplist and markup
> commands is my biggest difficulty.
>
> I tried switching to a markup command:
>
> #(define-markup-command (paragraph layout props args) (markup?)
>   #:properties ((par-indent 2))
>   (interpret-markup layout props
>     #{
>       \markup
>       \fill-line
>       {
>         \override #'(line-width . 80)
>         \justify { \hspace #par-indent #args }
>       }
>     #}))
>
> But this resulted in each word being on its own line.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> -----Jay

Hi,

is
http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=765
of some help?

Cheers,
  Harm