Re: lilypond-book

[Mats Bengtsson]

Laura Conrad wrote:
> > > > > > "GP" == Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
>     GP> On 14-Feb-05, at 9:30 PM, J L wrote:
>     >> I think that lilypond-book could be improved so that basic commands
>     >> such as \clef can be used, or is there some way to do this without
>     >> loading seperate files?
>
>     GP> I don't understand what you mean.  I've used \clef many times in
>     GP> lilypond-book.
>
> I think he means that you have lilypond source in a .ly file, but in
> the .lytex file you can specify that this particular printing should
> use this clef.  In other words, I'd be able to print the same lilypond
> file in treble clef for a singer and in "G_8" clef for a recorder
> player,   and in tenor clef for a cello player.

That's easy if you write the actual music in a separate .ly file
and only specify the \score in your LaTeX file. Something like,

\begin{lilypond}
\include{mypiece.ly}
\score{
  \new Staff{\clef bass \mypiece}
}
\end{lilypond}

The main disadvantage is that lilypond-book will not realize that it has
to rerun lilypond if you make a change in the included .ly file, so you
might have to remove the generated lily-*.ly files to make sure that
everything is updated.

  /Mats

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