Multi-column text

[Christopher R. Maden]

I have made a nice little book of the Irish tunes I know.  The problem
is that many of these tunes have many names, so I made an index giving
all the known names.

If I use \markup and \column, I have to manually break lines and
columns, which is a bit of a pain in the neck:

    \markup {
      \fill-line {
        \column {
          \line { \bold { Anderson’s } (The Silver Spear): \page-ref
#'spear "0" "?" }
          \line { The \bold { Bangor Reel } (The Knotted Cord):
\page-ref #'knottedCord "0" "?" }
          \line { The \bold { Banshee } (McMahon’s): \page-ref
#'mcmahons "0" "?" }
        }
        \hspace #1
        \column {
          \line { \bold { Come in the Evening } }
          \line { \hspace #2 (The Lark in the Morning): \page-ref #'lark
"0" "?" }
        }
      }
    }

So I’m trying to use \markuplines and \column-lines instead, but I can’t
figure out how to actually get multiple columns with that.  Is
column-lines just a way of making lists?  Is there a way to ask for a
two-column multi-page flow without explicit breaking?

Thanks,
Chris
-- 
Chris Maden, text nerd  <URL: http://crism.maden.org/ >
Those who learn from history are doomed to become cynics.