Re: Indenting arbitrary lines

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bellows" <address@hidden>
To: "lilypond-user" <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2015 4:22 PM
Subject: Indenting arbitrary lines


> I have an odd request that I'm hoping someone will have some ideas for.
>
> 1. I want all lines to be indented (like the first line).
> 2. Except when I specifically tell Lilypond not to indent. Like the 
> following:
>
> c4 d4 \bar""\break \don'tindentthisnextbit e4 f4 g4 ...
>
> The project I'm working can generate musical acrostics (originally
> mesostics but I've expanded a bit) and need to be able to format
> staves in this manner in order to differentiate between a line that is
> continuing from the previous one (indent) and one where the first note
> is part of the acrostic (no indent). In case anyone's curious (and to
> help visualize):
> http://www.reddit.com/r/musicandpoetry/comments/2vsg6u/musical_mesostics/
>
> And my first pass at doing it myself (without the indentation -- you
> can see the problem):
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5Jk3Yrq1rrdaWNCVVJYMWtkdnM/view


Could you put all the lines that are "continuations" in a single score 
block, and have multiple score blocks?  You could then try a negative indent 
for the first line to "outdent" it.

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Phil Holmes