Re: Keeping text with a score in a \book

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Ralph,

> I have lines of text (copyright and source information) that I'm putting 
> below the tune (on the paper). The most reliable way I found to keep the text 
> centered was to put it after the \score as a \markup.

I think that’s likely the best way.

> I'm putting one to four tunes on a page. The problem is that LilyPond 
> sometimes wants to put the text for the last tune on one page at the top of 
> the following page. The only way I've found to prevent that is to incllude 
> \noPageBreak after each line of text.

After every single line (as opposed to the entire markup)? I believe if you use 
the markup functions (e.g., justify, column, and their kin), Lilypond won’t 
split the chunk across a page break.

> Is there a simpler and/or more reliable way to keep the text (\markup) with 
> the tune?

I don’t know of one.

That being said, when I’m building a multi-score book in which some scores may 
end/begin mid-page, I explicitly use \bookpart to wrap chunks of scores that 
*do* begin and end at page breaks. Within the bookpart, I can then have finer 
control over inter-markup and inter-score spacing, page and system counts, etc. 
If you don’t mind adding \bookpart {} wrappers to your book, I highly recommend 
going that direction.

Cheers,
Kieren.
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