In the weekly service files I'm generating for my church, near the end
is the text for a dismissal prayer. This prayer pretty much always has
the same beginning and ending text, but a section in the middle varies
from service to service. I've been trying (without success) to encode
these in variables so I can have the beginning and ending pre-coded in
my template, and just have the middle part in the include file for that
service.
In other words, I'm trying to turn something like this:
\markup {
\column { \override #'(line-width . 92) {
\wordwrap {
This is the beginning of the rather long dismissal prayer,
which would be in the first variable;
followed here by the service-specific part which goes in
the include file;
and then this part, which would be in the second variable,
goes at the end to complete the prayer.
}
} }
}
Into something like this:
PrayerBeginning = \markup { This is the beginning of the rather long
dismissal prayer, which would be in the first variable; }
PrayerEnding = \markup { and then this part, which would be in the
second variable, goes at the end to complete the prayer. }
TodaysMiddle = \markup { followed here by the service-specific part
which goes in the include file; }
\markup {
\column { \override #'(line-width . 92) {
\wordwrap {
\PrayerBeginning
\TodaysMiddle
\PrayerEnding
}
} }
}
And have it still print as a single, word-wrapped paragraph.
Unfortunately, this (and every variation I've tried that will actually
compile) treats each variable as if the text it represents were enclosed
in double-quotes as a single string.
Does anyone know if this is even possible, and if so, how would I do it?
Thanx,
Mike
