Re: tips for formatting an interview

[Jacques Menu]

Hello Federico,

> Le 15 nov. 2015 à 20:57, Federico Bruni <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> Il giorno dom 15 nov 2015 alle 8:21, Jacques Menu <address@hidden> ha scritto:
>> Hello Federico,
>> How about:
>> \markup {
>>  \hspace #8
>>  \column {
>>    \override-lines #'(line-width . 30)
>>    \wordwrap-lines
>>    {
>>      Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consec tetur adipisi cing elit, sed do eiu 
>> smod tempor
>>    }
>>  }
>>  \hspace #5
>>  \column \italic {
>>    \override-lines #'(line-width . 30)
>>    \wordwrap-lines
>>    {
>>      Duis aute irure dolor in rep rehende rit in volup tate velit esse 
>> cillum dolore eu
>>      Duis aute irure dolor in rep rehende rit in volup tate velit esse 
>> cillum dolore eu
>>    }
>>  }
>>  \hspace #1
>> }
> 
> Hello Jacques
> 
> Thanks for this example, but this forces you to decide in advance which part 
> of text should go into each column. If you change the paper size, you'll have 
> to move some text from one column to another. I was hoping there was a markup 
> list command to achieve this automatically.


Oh, I see, I had overlooked that aspect.

Maybe a Python script reading the text in and creating something like the above 
with the text split into as many such elements as required by the geometry of 
the page?

JM