Re: Including style files

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Thursday 08 December 2005 09:14 am, Simon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a beginner at lilypond and I am getting confused trying to do 
something
> which seems to be a very natural and frequently occuring task to me, 
but for
> which I cannot find proper documentation and/or examples on the web 
and in the
> manual.
> 
> 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"

See slyce.py, on my site.  An example is the Carcassi 'scales', q.v., 
under
instruction.  It stores all the tunes in one file and then you create
a separate file for each tune with a single command.  It's very fast
and simple.  daveA

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