Re: \book usage

[Mats Bengtsson]

Graham Percival wrote:

> >  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)
If you get two PDF output files, then you still have some \book{...} left
in one of the included files! Just remove all of them and you should get
all your pieces in a single PDF with continuous page numbering.

  /Mats

> 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
>
>
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