Re: title page for \book

[Mats Bengtsson]

One reason to skip the \book was brought up in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-06/msg00060.html
namely that you cannot define identifiers within a \book{...}.

   /Mats

Graham Percival wrote:
> On 30-Jul-05, at 1:25 PM, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
>
> > Do you have any particular reason to use \book{...}?
> > I don't have a running LilyPond available for the moment, but as
> > far as I recall, you should get exactly the same result even if you
> > remove the \book{...}.
>
>
> As far as I know, if you have multiple toplevel music or markup
> expressions, lilypond automatically makes them into a book.
>
> Assuming that is correct, then I suppose that there's no particular
> benefit to explicitly declaring
> \book{
>   \markup{}
>   \score{}
>   \score{}
> }
>
> instead of
> \markup{}
> \score{}
> \score{}
>
> ... but then again, I can't see any disadvantage to explicitly declaring
> \book.
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
>
>
>
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