Titles
These snippets illustrate the Notation Reference, section Titles and headers.
Adding the current date to a score
With a little Scheme code, the current date can easily be added to a score.
% first, define a variable to hold the formatted date: date = #(strftime "%d-%m-%Y" (localtime (current-time))) % use it in the title block: \header { title = "Including the date!" subtitle = \date } \score { \relative c'' { c4 c c c } } % and use it in a \markup block: \markup { \date }
Aligning and centering instrument names
The horizontal alignment of instrument names is tweaked
by changing the Staff.InstrumentName #'self-alignment-X
property.
The \layout
variables indent
and short-indent
define the space in which the instrument names are aligned before the
first and the following systems, respectively.
\paper { left-margin = 3\cm } \score { \new StaffGroup << \new Staff { \override Staff.InstrumentName #'self-alignment-X = #LEFT \set Staff.instrumentName = \markup \left-column { "Left aligned" "instrument name" } \set Staff.shortInstrumentName = #"Left" c''1 \break c''1 } \new Staff { \override Staff.InstrumentName #'self-alignment-X = #CENTER \set Staff.instrumentName = \markup \center-column { Centered "instrument name" } \set Staff.shortInstrumentName = #"Centered" g'1 g'1 } \new Staff { \override Staff.InstrumentName #'self-alignment-X = #RIGHT \set Staff.instrumentName = \markup \right-column { "Right aligned" "instrument name" } \set Staff.shortInstrumentName = #"Right" e'1 e'1 } >> \layout { ragged-right = ##t indent = 4\cm short-indent = 2\cm } }
Demonstrating all headers
All header fields with special meanings.
\header { copyright = "copyright" title = "title" subtitle = "subtitle" composer = "composer" arranger = "arranger" instrument = "instrument" metre = "metre" opus = "opus" piece = "piece" poet = "poet" texidoc = "All header fields with special meanings." copyright = "public domain" enteredby = "jcn" source = "urtext" } \layout { ragged-right = ##f } \score { \relative c'' { c1 | c | c | c } } \score { \relative c'' { c1 | c | c | c } \header { title = "localtitle" subtitle = "localsubtitle" composer = "localcomposer" arranger = "localarranger" instrument = "localinstrument" metre = "localmetre" opus = "localopus" piece = "localpiece" poet = "localpoet" copyright = "localcopyright" } }