Re: custom header

[Mats Bengtsson]

Aaron wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to know if it is possible to change the header names:
>
> 1. I would like to change the name to another language instead of title
> (ketorit) etc.

LilyPond just passes the fields as variables to LaTeX that does the
actual typesetting. So, to do the change you could edit the list of
layout_fields in the lilypond program and then make the corresponding
changes in tex/titledefs.tex. However, it's not something you can
easily switch from/to and you should probably also read the GNU license
of LilyPond first if you plan to spread your changes to other people.
Also, think about the problems when you upgrade to a newer LilyPond.

> 2. In the english headers to change or the header names to other names.
> 3. The ability to add my own header names.

Just as easy as I indicated above. However, I recommend to use
lilypond-book instead, which gives even more freedom and gives a
solution that works better across different LilyPond versions.

Finally, you should note that one of the major development goals
up til version 3.0 is to typeset both the music and the titling
directly with Postscript instead of the current detour via LaTeX.

  /Mats