Re: File structure builder, comments

[Graham Percival]

On 25-Feb-06, at 12:24 PM, Christian Conkle wrote:

> I'm thinking about typesetting a number of orchestral pieces from old 
> Dover
> reprints to go along with an orchestration course I'm taking.  I've 
> been
> thinking about ways to make the process easier (since I don't have the 
> scores
> yet) and have been considering writing a script (in Ruby) to generate 
> 'custom'
> file trees: the files for each instrument's music definition, for 
> printing
> parts, and for the score.

I believe that jedit does this; you could have a look at their scripts.

> Has anyone else done such a thing?  Does anyone else have workflow 
> sugesstions
> for orchestral engraving?  Also, are there any particularly good 
> "models" of
> orchestral scores set in Lilypond around?  I've been working from Will 
> Oram's
> engraving of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, which I got from Mutopia.

Make sure you read Chapter 4 in the 2.7 docs.  There might not be 
anything new in there for you, but if there *is*, you'll have wanted to 
have read it.  :)

Cheers,
- Graham