Re: bookparts with paper blocks

[Federico Bruni]

2013/4/30 Francisco Vila <address@hidden>

> Hello.
>
> In "File structure" we are saying that bookparts can help on having
> different paper settings for each part, but in fact this conflicts
> with the statement we state (in the same page) that paper settings act
> on the whole book.
>
> This is confusing, do you agree?
>
>
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/file-structure

I don't think it's really confusing, but it may be better explained with
examples.
I think that we may add a paper block and an explanation in the last
snippet of this page:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/multiple-scores-in-a-book

BTW, Trevor recently pushed this:
https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2902

see NR 4.1.1:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/the-_005cpaper-block




> I've also seen many unanswered questions in the list archives about
> using bookparts to join scores. IMO it is confusing that we don't
> offer a template or something warning that you can not simply include
> a working score in a bookpart, and instead you have to handle a
> bookpart as if it were a score block.
>

I can't understand your last sentence.