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Subject:    Re: Multiple right-aligned lines in composer field
From:       Mats Bengtsson <mats.bengtsson () ee ! kth ! se>
Date:       2008-11-27 19:16:22
Message-ID: 20081127201622.pmao0m8u034s444g () webmail ! md ! kth ! se
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In version 2.10, it should work to do something like
\markup\column{
  \right-align { First line }
  \right-align { Second line }
}

    /Mats

Quoting Marius Andersen <rezonatix3@yahoo.no>:

> I am using LilyPond 2.10.33 to arrange a few Radiohead tunes, so in
> the composer field I want to write the following long text which
> spans two lines:
>
>    Words and Music by Thomas Yorke, Jonathan Greenwood,
>       Edward O'Brien, Philip Selway and Colin Greenwood
>
> The composer field is right-aligned, and so I want both of these two
> lines to be right-aligned, too. However, if using \column, the second
> line gets left-aligned with reference to the first:
>
>    composer = \markup \column {
>      "Words and Music by Thomas Yorke, Jonathan Greenwood,"
>      "Edward O'Brien, Philip Selway and Colin Greenwood" }
>    }
>
> yielding
>
>    Words and Music by Thomas Yorke, Jonathan Greenwood,
>    Edward O'Brien, Philip Selway and Colin Greenwood
>
> And using center-aligned doesn't cut it, either:
>
>    composer = \markup \center-align {
>      "Words and Music by Thomas Yorke, Jonathan Greenwood,"
>      "Edward O'Brien, Philip Selway and Colin Greenwood" }
>    }
>
> yielding
>
>    Words and Music by Thomas Yorke, Jonathan Greenwood,
>     Edward O'Brien, Philip Selway and Colin Greenwood
>
> I notice in the Notation Reference for LilyPond 2.11 that a new
> command, \right-column, is available, which would probably accomplish
> what I want. However, I'm stuck with 2.10. How do I get the alignment
> I want?
>
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