Re: tips for formatting an interview

[Simon Albrecht]

On 14.11.2015 15:22, Federico Bruni wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm trying to format directly in LilyPond an interview (the single 
> text only part of a book). I don't want to use lilypond-book and LaTeX 
> just because of this minor part of the book.
>
> I've two questions:
>
> 1) There's any way to place the text on two columns AND let LilyPond 
> reflow it depending on the available space on the page?
> The documentation contains an example where you must decide in advance 
> what goes into column left and what into column right. I'd like to 
> avoid this.

No, Lily can’t currently typeset in multiple columns. I’m surprised to 
see that there is no feature request in the tracker. This should be 
available both as a paper variable (say \paper { columns = 2 }) and as a 
markup command/markup list command(?).

> 2) I'm trying to create a shortcut for formatting the question and the 
> answer.
> I wonder if the new \etc can be used for this purpose or should I 
> rather create a markup function.

IIUC, \etc can only be used for music functions (at least until now… 
:-)). So you need a custom markup or markup list command.

Yours, Simon

> I've tried the following but it fails immediately when it evaluates 
> the definitions:
>
> \version "2.19.31"
>
> question = \markuplist \justified-lines \bold \etc
> answer = \markuplist \justified-lines \etc
>
> \markuplist {
>  \justified-lines \bold {
>    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do 
> eiusmod tempor
>    incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim 
> veniam, quis
>    nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo 
> consequat.
>    Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse 
> cillum dolore eu
>    fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non 
> proident, sunt in
>    culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
>  }
>  \justified-lines {
>    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do 
> eiusmod tempor
>    incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim 
> veniam, quis
>    nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo 
> consequat.
>    Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse 
> cillum dolore eu
>    fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non 
> proident, sunt in
>    culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
>  }
> }
>
>
>
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