Re: Realigning the Meter header text to the center

[William Rehwinkel]

Dear Stephen,

In the future, could you please copy-paste the text into the email or 
attach it as a file? It will make it easier for us to start with that 
file instead of transcribing the text from a screenshot.

In the meantime, give this a try and see if it works. We can override 
the bookTitleMarkup variable which is defined in /ly/titling-init.ly 
like this. Let me know if this is what you were looking for.

Thanks,
-William

% ------------

\version "2.25.21"

\header {
  title="hymn title"
  composer = "composer"
  poet = "poet"
  tune = "tune name"
  meter = "C.M.D."
}

\relative c' c4

\paper {
  bookTitleMarkup = \markup {
    \override #'(baseline-skip . 3.5)
    \column {

      \fill-line { % this part is different
        \null
        \line {
          \fromproperty #'header:tune
          \fromproperty #'header:meter
        }
        \null
      }
      \fill-line { \fromproperty #'header:dedication }
      \override #'(baseline-skip . 3.5)
      \column {
        \fill-line {
          \huge \larger \larger \bold
          \fromproperty #'header:title
        }
        \fill-line {
          \large \bold
          \fromproperty #'header:subtitle
        }
        \fill-line {
          \smaller \bold
          \fromproperty #'header:subsubtitle
        }
        \fill-line {
          \fromproperty #'header:poet
          { \large \bold \fromproperty #'header:instrument }
          \fromproperty #'header:composer
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

% ------------

On 12/21/24 16:08, Stephen Fry wrote:
> I've been using the default header settings with the text values set as 
> shown in the snippet and the pdf output shown below.  However, I would 
> like the meter (10.9.10.9.D) to be centered at the top of the page and 
> next to the tune name (whose variable I will likely have to create 
> manually).  I tried using the example in Documentation 3.3.2 > Custom 
> layout for titles to change the alignment, but this doesn't seem to work 
> the same way for "meter" as it does for "title" or "piece" ???
>
> YES, the lyrics, tune, and harmony *are all in the public domain*.
>
> Could somebody show a way to edit the alignment of the "meter" 
> variable?  Note:  While the documentation came from the manual for the 
> unstable release, I've been using V 2.18.2.  I've run out of space on my 
> local disk, so I cannot upgrade LilyPond without doing a lot of memory 
> management.  I would like to get this fixed as soon as possible to send 
> to the printer.
>
> Snippet:
> image.png
> Output currently:
> image.png
>
> Thank you,
> Stephen F.

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