Re: Including style files

[Graham Percival]

On 8-Dec-05, at 6:14 AM, Simon wrote:

> I want to create a collection of many short tunes, each one living in 
> a separate
> lilypond file. For these tunes I want to have a uniform layout which I 
> want to
> be able to change quickly for all files. So the natural idea is to 
> move the
> necessary definitions to a separate file, say "tune.ly" and read them 
> with
>
> \include "tune.ly"

Most people call this file "global.ly", but of course it doesn't 
matter.  :)

I think you're approaching this slightly backwards, though.  The way to 
do it is to have one (or more -- I have five[1] different "init" files 
which I use for every project) file (here called "global.ly"), which 
you included in the individual tunes.

[1]  I have separate files for \layout stuff, \paper stuff, new 
dynamics, book stuff, and finally a generic file which includes all 
those other ones (and turns off point-and-click).


---- global.ly:
\version "2.7.15"
\layout{
  indent = 14\mm
  \context { \Score
    \accepts "ChamberGroup"
    skipBars = ##t
    markFormatter = #format-mark-box-letters
    \override InstrumentName #'space-alist = #'((left-edge extra-space 
. 1.0))
    autoBeamSettings = #(layout-override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 5 
8) 3 8)
...
}}
----

---- tune1.ly:
\version "2.7.15"
\include "../path/to/global.ly"
melody={c'4 c'4}
\score{ \melody }
----


Cheers,
- Graham