Re: \book usage

[Mats Bengtsson]

The only reason to use \book{...} in an ordinary .ly file is if you want
several output PDF files from one single .ly file (you get one PDF for
each \book{...} section if you have several of them).
If you have a single \book{...} in a .ly file, you can simply remove it
and get the same result (except that you get rid of the problems you
noticed below).

  /Mats

Gilles wrote:

> Hello.
>
> To generate a piece with multiple movements, I'm used to the
> following document layout, which compiles fine:
>
> %--- all.ly ---
> \version "2.6.0"
>
> \paper {
>  raggedbottom = ##f
>  raggedlastbottom = ##t
> }
>
> \header {
>  \include "header.inc.ly"
> }
>
> \include "all_allegro.ly"
> \include "all_siciliana.ly"
> \include "all_bourree.ly"
> \include "all_menuet.ly"
> \include "all_trio.ly"
> %-----
>
> "all_allegro.ly" includes "all_allegro.inc.ly" and contains a \score.
> "all_allegro.inc.ly" defines a StaffGroup and includes all the parts
> for this movement, e.g. "recorder_allegro.inc.ly" which defines the
> a variable ("recorderNotes") containing the note sequence.
> [And similarly for the other movements.]
>
> Now, in the documentation for 2.6.3, I read about the \book block;
> so, I changed the above into 
>
> %--- all.ly ---
> \version "2.6.0"
>
> \paper {
>  raggedbottom = ##f
>  raggedlastbottom = ##t
> }
>
> \book {
>  \header {
>    \include "header.inc.ly"
>  }
>
>  \include "all_allegro.ly"
>  \include "all_siciliana.ly"
>  \include "all_bourree.ly"
>  \include "all_menuet.ly"
>  \include "all_trio.ly"
> }
> %-----
>
> but lilypond doesn't like it:
>
> $ lilypond all.ly
> GNU LilyPond 2.6.3
> Processing `all.ly'
> Parsing...
> recorder_allegro.inc.ly:3:0: error: syntax error, unexpected STRING
>
> recorderNotes = \relative c'' {
> recorder_allegro.inc.ly:135:0: error: syntax error, unexpected '}'
>
> }
> recorder_allegro.inc.ly:146:21: error: unknown escaped string: `\recorderNotes'
>    \transpose c c {
>                     \recorderNotes }
> recorder_allegro.inc.ly:146:21: error: syntax error, unexpected STRING
>    \transpose c c {
>                     \recorderNotes }
> all_allegro.ly:5:7: error: errors found, ignoring music expression
> \score
>       {
> all_allegro.ly:16:2: error: errors found, ignoring music expression
>
>  \unfoldRepeats \staves
> all.ly:24:0: error: syntax error, unexpected '}'
>
> }
> error: failed files: "all.ly"
>
>
> Could you explain why it doesn't work?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Gilles
>
>
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