#4660 Enhancement: Support more than one column

[Simon Albrecht]

Currently, LilyPond offers no intelligent way to typeset in a two-column layout. It’s very uncommon to typeset entire scores in two-column mode, but for textual components, possibly mixed with music, it would be great to have a markup list command like \two-column, eventually even \three-column and \four-column for more exotic cases.

[Trevor Daniels]

Well, maybe this is not an intelligent way, but it works perfectly well for fixed line layouts like poems, verses to hymns and stanzas to songs:

:::TeX
\markup {
  \vspace #1
  \fill-line {
    "    "
    \column { 
      "1. Verse 1, line 1"
      "       Verse 1, line 2"
    }
    "    " 
    \column {
      "2. Verse 2, line 1"
      "       Verse 2 line 2"
    }
    "    "
  }
}

But there is no way of making text reflow when column widths change.