Re: Adding line breaks within lyrics

[Andrew C. Smith]

Thanks Kieren & James,

This helped a lot. I actually found a lesser workaround later last night, but your solutions were way better.

Continuing this conversation: I'm trying to now make a markup function, and running into trouble. Here's the function:

---

#(define-markup-command (wrap-lyrics layout props line) (markup?)

#:properties ((line-wrap-width 40))

"Allow lyrics to wrap at the end of the line"

(interpret-markup layout props

(markup #:override '(line-width . ,line-wrap-width) #:column 

(#:wordwrap-lines (line)))))

...

\markup { \wrap-lyrics {sky's bluer than it seems sky's blue all seeming yet feeling is first yet syntax seems clear} }

---

However, I get this error:

error: Not a markup command: wordwrap-lines

Any ideas? Running \displayLilyMusic shows that \wordwrap-lines is replaced by:

 #<procedure wordwrap-lines-markup-list (layout props args)> ("world's" "chaos" "when" "we" "seek" "it" "water's" "drifting" "as" "slowly" "out" "tides" "toward" "land" "twice" "daily")

But is there a workaround to let me use this same built-in procedure in my scheme function?

Thanks, and sorry for the gobs of code. Hopefully we'll end up with a snippet in the end.

Best,

Andrew

On Jun 19, 2011, at 10:32 AM, James Lowe wrote:

Hello,
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From: address@hidden address@hidden on behalf of Kieren MacMillan address@hidden
Sent: 18 June 2011 23:08
To: Andrew C.Smith
Cc: LilyPond User Group
Subject: Re: Adding line breaks within lyrics

Hi Andrew,

or to set the max width and tell lilypond to wrap the text?

In markup, I used

   ^\markup \override #'(line-width . 62) \column { \wordwrap-lines { Lorem ipso dolor yadda yadda … } }

I'm assuming you could do the same with LyricText.

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Ah, I saw this after I wrote my response.

Yes that was the kind of thing I was looking at, but you can (it seems) incorporate it directly in LyricText object rather that just using it as a markup (which may be more convenient).

James