Re: Some text formatting advice

[Urs Liska]

Hi Torsten,

thank you for these ideas, which bring me further - but admittedly not 
over the goal line yet.


Am 23.07.2018 um 13:02 schrieb Torsten Hämmerle:
> Hi Urs,
>
> There is one magic command called \textLengthOn that might be of great help
> in this case.
>
> With \textLengthOn, the width of measures will be increased depending on the
> markup without vertical shifting around and stacking on top of each other.

I knew about \textLengthOn but was not aware of the fact that I can 
manually limit the line width. These two together solve my issue of the 
horizontal boxing!

> In a combination with staff-padding it is possible to vertically align
> TextScript markups by their baseline.

Well, this only works sort-of, namely when there's no music above the staff.

In this modified excerpt you can see that the text abvoe the first bar 
is pushed upwards with no need:

%%%%%%%%%%
\version "2.19.82"

{
  \textLengthOn
  \override TextScript.self-alignment-X = #CENTER
  \override TextScript.baseline-skip = #2.3
  \override TextScript.staff-padding = #6
  a''\longa*1/4^\markup \center-column {
    \bold "Longa."   "Eine lange Note." " "
  }
  c''\breve*1/2
    ^\markup \center-column {
      \bold "Breve." "Eine kurze" "Note."
    }
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%

I would like to be able to position text at a fixed distance from the 
staff, regardless of any items in the "padding" area. Of course if that 
would collide the text could be allowed to move (if the a'' were in the 
second bar that would be the case). But if a solution would suppress 
collision handling altogether it might be acceptable as well.

Urs