Re: Combine two markups in a toplevel markup

[Thomas Morley]

Am Fr., 12. Okt. 2018 um 17:52 Uhr schrieb Urs Liska <address@hidden>:
>
> Hi,
>
> basically this is a follow-up question to the one where I needed to
> align a text over a slur. I wanted to apply the techniques I learned
> from your valuable help but ran against the next wall (or: I didn't see
> that there is no wall after all ...).
>
> The overall goal now is to create a centered score with a centered
> caption below it. Of course I don't know how wide both the score and the
> caption will be.
>
> My first attempt was quite straightforward: produce both the score and
> the markup as markups centered with \fill-line.
>
> While this worked perfectly at aligning the score and markup it turned
> out not to be good enough: While this centers perfectly on the page I
> can't get correctly cropped output because the bounding box seems to
> reach both line ends, resulting in uncropped whitespace to the left and
> right of the score/caption.
>
> If there's a solution to this problem everything below can be ignored.
>
> So I thought to make this *one* markup stencil, align the two parts
> manually against each other and print the result as one (left-aligned)
> markup, so it should be properly cropped. Now while I feel quite
> confident that I would manage to deal with the alignment and stencil
> issues this time I don't see how I can get at them at the right moment
> when I'm dealing with a top-level markup (and not inside some music).
>
> What I *have* is two markups (one regular and one score wrapped in a
> markup), both stored in variables.
>
> What I *need* is a way to combine these markups to one and use the
> result as a top-level markup, the problem being that I need to access
> the resulting extents of the markups in order to properly align them
> against each other.
>
> Any suggestions? (In fact I'd actually prefer suggestions over solutions
> this time ...)
>
> Best
> Urs

Hi Urs,

not sure I understand correctly, probably something like below?

one = \markup \score { d'1 }
two = \markup \italic "whatever"

\markup \halign #CENTER \center-column { \one "|" \two }



Cheers,
  Harm