Re: \book usage

[Mats Bengtsson]

Graham Percival wrote:

> On 2-Nov-05, at 4:06 AM, Gilles wrote:
>
> > > \documentclass{article}
> > > \begin{document}
> > > \lilypondfile{1allegro/score.ly}
> > > \liypondfile{2largo/score.ly}
> > > \end{document}
> >
> > If I understand correctly, this is to make it possible to insert
> > text between the different movements (as is the purpose of \book).
> > Right?
>
>
> The purpose of using lilypond-book here is just to stick multiple 
> scores together, with page numbering.
Could you please remind me and others on why you could not simply do it
all within a .ly file:
\version "2.6.0"
\paper{
% For version 2.6:
scoreTitleMarkup = \bookTitleMarkup
% For version 2.7:
printallheaders = ##t
}

\include "piece1.ly"
\include "piece2.ly"
...

Now I remember one problem, namely that you have to move all \header{...}
blocks into the corresponding \score{...} block, otherwise all the 
pieces will
get the same title. But are there any other problems that you solve 
easier with
lilypond-book?

> > > --- 1allegro/score.ly
> >
> >
> > According to Han-Wen's remark, with or without \book here, the
> > result should be the same.
>
>
> Not if you're using lilypond-book.  If you don't use \book, then you 
> can't use \pageBreak in your scores.  There used to be a bug (in Aug) 
> wherein the horizontal alignment of some systems was also messed up 
> without \book; I'm not certain if that's still around.

That's a rather special issue and should be described in the lilypond-book
manual. I still find the information about \book in the main manual very
misleading, both in "8.1.4 Text markup", "10.1.12 Multiple movements"
and "5.8 File structure". If you agree, I can try to reformulate it.

  /Mats