How to make two bar phrases in two columns per page

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In the style of "Stick Control for the Snare Drummer" I'd like to set my page in two columns having 12 2-bar phrases in each. I have this attempt which is nearly exactly what I want, except I would like the 2-bar phrases to line up. This could be achieved by e.g. making the spaces between each consecutive 2-bar phrase equal but all my attempts by following the manual have failed so far - presumably because everything is wrapped in markup. The approach with markup was the only approach I found to create multiple columns, which I found here

Is there any other approach that could be used, or is there some variable I could poke in order to make the systems vertically equidistant?

Worst case it seems I can manually add \fill-line { \override #'(baseline-skip . $MAGIC_NUMBER) and correct them and actually get a passable result. I'd rather not go through all files manually, though... – — fcar, Sep 13 '21 at 18:30
Indeed, "Vertical spacing of a \score inside a markup object is controlled by baseline-skip. Any \paper settings are ignored." From http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/formatting-text#music-notation-inside-markup — fcar, Sep 15 '21 at 12:38

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 20 '21 at 03:52

I think \table solves your problem.

See here for more.

An example:

\version "2.22.0"
\markup \fill-line {
    \column
    \override #'(padding . 20)
    \override #'(baseline-skip . 12)
    \table #'(0 0) {
        \score {
            \new Staff \relative c' { c2 d e f }
            \layout { }
        }
    \score {
        \new Staff \relative c' { d2 e f g }
        \layout { }
    }

    %-----

    \score {
        \new Staff \relative c' { e2 f g a }
        \layout { }
    }

    \score {
        \new Staff \relative c' { f2 g a b }
        \layout { }
    }
}

}

How to make two bar phrases in two columns per page

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