Re: Dots in TOC

[Aaron Hill]

On 2020-02-06 4:40 am, Vaughan McAlley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I’ve tried adding an extra line of description to the title within a 
> TOC
> entry (it states the voicing of each choral movement). The last 
> movement
> has a description longer than the title, so the dots don’t reach the 
> title.
> I’ve tried overriding X-extents within the markup, but it doesn't seem 
> to
> make any difference.

You could use either \with-dimensions or \with-dimensions-from to adjust 
the effective extents of the markup.  But likely the better option is 
this:

%%%%
\version "2.19.83"

\paper {
  tocItemMarkup = \tocItemWithDotsMarkup
  tocDescriptionMarkup = \markup \italic \fromproperty #'toc:text
}

tocDescription = #(define-music-function (text) (markup?)
  (add-toc-item! 'tocDescriptionMarkup text))

\book {
  \markuplist \table-of-contents
  \tocItem "One"
  \tocDescription "Lorem ipsum"
  \tocItem "Two"
  \tocDescription "Dolor sit amet"
  \markup \null
}
%%%%

You can follow pattern this to add any number of other specialized items 
with custom markup.


-- Aaron Hill