Re: \book usage

[Graham Percival]

On 3-Nov-05, at 2:02 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Graham Percival wrote:
> > 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.

Interestingly, I didn't need to do that with 2.7.12 and printallheaders.

>  But are there any other problems that you solve easier with
> lilypond-book?

Yes.  The above produces:
collection.pdf   (includes piece1, with pages numbered 1 and 2)
collection-1.pdf   (includes piece2, with pages numbered 1 and 2 as 
well)
(assuming piece1 and 2 are both 2 pages)

Now, I _could_ manually set piece2 to start on page 3, and I could 
probably find some command-line tool to stick foo.pdf and foo-1.pdf 
together as fooall.pdf  (I know pstools can do this with ps files)... 
but I found it easier to use lilypond-book.

The automatic page numbering is a bigger issue than sticking pdfs 
together.  Once I've found the tool (pdftools ?), I can just include 
those commands in a script and have it done automatically.  But if I 
change the order of pieces in a collection, or add an extra page of 
text at the beginning or whatever, I'd have to change all the manual 
page numbers again.

Cheers,
- Graham