Re: Not enough vertical room for headers?

[David Wright]

On Tue 27 Dec 2016 at 13:05:36 (+1100), Alasdair McAndrew wrote:
> I solved it by replacing the "instrument" directive with "subtitle",
> which gets a line on its own.

There is a snag with doing it this way. Instrument and subtile are
semantically different, eg "The instrument name will be repeated on
every page" (somewhere under §3.2.1).

It might be wiser to do it this way:

\version "2.18.2"

\header{
 title = "Duo Galante Number 1"
 instrument = \markup { "Treble recorder and viola da gamba" }
 composer = \markup { \column { " " "Esprit Philippe Chedeville (1692–1762)" } }
}

\score {
 r4
 \layout { }
}

so that instrument can indulge in its normal behaviour.

(PS "–" and other unicode characters are supported by LP.)

> Andrew Bernard writes:
> 
> >In this case, lilypond is trying to center the instrument name on the same
> >line as the composer name. As they are both long they do not fit, and
> >consequently overlap.
> >
> >You can make a custom header, and probably put the instrument name on a
> >separate line.
> >
> >Refer to the Notation Reference (affectionately called the NR around here)
> >Section 3.2.2. Custom titles headers and footers.
> >
> >The MWE enables us to solve it quickly!

Cheers,
David.