Re: Prevent "orphan" markup

[Vaughan McAlley]

On 16 January 2017 at 19:59, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a multi-movement work (or rather numerous ones) where the
> movement titles are printed using an automatically generated top-level
> markup. The overall structure looks like:
>
> \book {
>   \markup { "overall title" }
>   \bookpart {
>     % (first work in group)
>     \markup { "work title" }
>     \markup { "Title of first movement" }
>     \score {
>       % first movement
>     }
>     \markup { "Title of second movement" }
>     \score {
>       % second movement
>     }
>     % etc
>   } % end bookpart
>   \bookpart {
>   % second work in group
>   % ...
>   }
> }
>
> Each "work" is wrapped in a bookpart and will consequently start on a
> new page.
> I didn't want to do the same with the movements because there will be
> cases where a new movement should better continue on the same page.
>
> The problem is that *usually* the title of the next movement fits on the
> same page as the end of the previous one but no music, so I have the
> title of the next movement sitting on the bottom of a page.
>
> So: is there a way that a top-level markup block can determine if there
> will be at least one system of music coming on the same page?
>
> I would really like to have an automatic way to handle this problem as I
> expect to have a three-digit number of movements and quite different
> configurations (full score, choral/continuo, parts) and perhaps also
> different output targets/formats. Forcing all movements to start on a
> new page would be a pity but seems the only workaround if I can't get a
> proper automatic solution to run.
>
> Any suggestions?
> Urs
>
> --
> address@hidden
> https://openlilylib.org
> http://lilypondblog.org
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> lilypond-user mailing list
> address@hidden
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Hi Urs,

Is there any reason you can't have:

\score {
  \secondMovementMusic
  \header {
    subtitle = \mySecondMovementTitleMarkup
  }
  \layout {}
}

This should never orphan the movement's title AFAIK,

Vaughan