Re: naming output files (maybe a feature request?)

[Graham Percival]

I've occasionally wanted this kind of thing, but I don't believe it can 
be done right now.  I've added it as a feature request,

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=404

Cheers,
- Graham


Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there any way to explicitly name the output files of a score?
>
> This is particularly a problem for me when I have multiple \book-s in a 
> single .ly file -- the default file naming (file-1.pdf, file-2.pdf) is 
> not very helpful. I would prefer to do something like:
>
> \book
> {
>     #(set-output-name "VocalScore")
>     \score
>     {
>         << \vocalMusic >>
>     }
> }
>
> \book
> {
>     #(set-output-name "PianoVocalScore")
>     \score
>     {
>         <<
>             \new Staff << \vocalMusic >>
>             \new PianoStaff << \pianoMusic >>
>        >>
>     }
> }
>
> which would generate the files VocalScore.pdf and PianoVocalScore.pdf. 
> Is there anything like this mechanism? [I did do a fairly long search 
> through the list and docs, but wasn't able to turn up anything...]
>
> Thanks!
> Kieren.
>
>
>
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