Re: Creating a table in Lilypond?

[David Kastrup]

David Nalesnik <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Ryan,
>
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Ryan McClure
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> It's been years since I've last used the mailing list...too long!
>>
>> I'm in the process of organizing my folk song collection for teaching, and I
>> want to use Lilypond to do it digitally. I need to create a table at the
>> bottom of my pages...like, an actual text table. I don't want to cut and
>> paste my Lilypond score into a document... Is there a way to create a text
>> table look-alike using \markup?
>>
>
>
> Yes, this great feature was introduced sometime in the 2.19 cycle.
> See 
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/text-markup-list-commands
>
> As far as I know, you can't use it in an actual \header block if
> that's what you're meaning to do (\header blocks don't seem to allow
> \markuplist commands, but I did manage to hack a way to do it.
> Perhaps someone will chime in with something I'm overlooking!)

Uh, \header blocks should allow \markuplist commands just fine, just not
for variables taking markups.  But you can always write

author = \column \table ...

to convert a markup list back into a single markup.

-- 
David Kastrup