: Subtitle won't wrap In my piece I have a long subtitle that runs off the sides of the page. What I would really like is to manually add a newline or carriage return, or perhaps at least get wordwrap to work. I've followed

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Perhaps you could try the following:

subtitle = markup {
column {
wordwrap {
THIS IS A TEST OF THE EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM. REPEAT: THIS IS ONLY A TEST. If this had been an actual emergency, the Attention Signal you just heard would have been followed by official information, news or instructions.
}
}
}

Note the removal of the quotation marks and nesting markup, column, and wordwrap within each other. You can read more about Formatting Text in the documentation.

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Remove the quotes. That's all what is needed: wordwrap expects individual words to wrap. Alternatively, use wordwrap-string.

The following works fine here:

header {
title = "Test"
subtitle = markup wordwrap {
THIS IS A TEST OF THE EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM. REPEAT: THIS IS ONLY A TEST. If this had been an actual emergency, the Attention Signal you just heard would have been followed by official information, news or instructions.
}
}

score { c'1 }

You state:

I've followed the directions and examples in the docs for using wordwrap - maybe I'm doing something wrong?

Obviously this cannot be the case here, so if you have suitable suggestions of how the documentation could be improved in order to keep others from making the same mistake, you'd likely want to forward them to the bug report list of LilyPond or at least discuss them on the user mailing list.