Re: Score parts: instrument and duration

[Mats Bengtsson]

Hans Aberg wrote:
> > > > - I have a score (Ernest Bloch, "Suite Modale for Flute and  
> > > > Piano")  which has an additional header field "duration". It is  
> > > > placed to the  left, over the instrument name.
> > > Good idea. Any takers for a patch?  It's just adding it to titling- 
> > > init.ly and the documentation.
> >
> > The question is what the field should be called. "Duration" is just
> > one of many possible uses for an extra field at this position.
>
>
> I only noticed that it has the field; I do not know how common it is;  
> whther it comes from the author or the typesetter. The field says
>   Duration: 12 minutes
> in normal size, plain, roman font.
>
> > Also, I'm not sure about exactly what position you want. Does
> > "over the instrument name" refer to the default instrument name
> > position given by LilyPond or the position up left where you want
> > it? Can you possibly reuse the "poet" field?
>
>
> The whole layout, in pseudo-code, is
>                                  \size 1\italic "To Elaine Shaffer"
>                                  \size 4\bold "Suite Modale"
> \size 0\normal "Duration ..."    \size 2\bold "For Flute and Piano"
> \size 3\bold  "FLUTE"                                                   
> \size 3 \bold "ERNEST BLOCH"
>                                                                         
> \size 3\bold "(1956)"
>                                  \size 3\bold "I"
> Score Part...
>
> \size 0 \normal&bold                                                    
> \size  0\normal&bold
>   "Copyright ..."                  \size 0 \normal                      
> "Broude Brothers..."
>   "International rights secured"         "B.B.  2010"                   
> "New York"
>   "All rights  reserved"                                                
> "Printed in  U.S.A"
>
> I am not saying that this is the right way to do it. I just notice  how 
> it is. It interesting to note how many font sizes are in use.


My conclusion here is that LilyPond can never be expected to provide
automatic support to handle all special cases of information that
people might want to squeeze into the title of a piece, not to mention
all possible layouts. The example you show here is fairly easy to obtain
using the already existing layout fields and one or two
\markup{\column{...}} and a few font size changing commands.
Also, if you want the same layout in a number of scores, it's fairly
easy to to modify the titling layout functions as described in the
manual (of course, a few more examples might not hurt).

   /Mats