Re: Organisation of compositions

[Mats Bengtsson]

See Sect. 5 "Working on LilyPond projects" in the Learning Manual for
LilyPond version 2.11 (which is relevant also if you use 2.10 but has been
rewritten and improved in many ways).

   /Mats

Thermo wrote:
> What advice can Lilypond users give as to the way parts of an arrangement are
> organised for re-use?
>
> As an example I have a piece displayed on one staff with guitar chords,
> lyrics, melody line, repeats and rehearsal marks.
>
> Is it possible to reuse the lyrics or melody I just completed, via a file or
> variable, in another arrangement?
> For example I may wish to use the same guitar chords but this time add a
> single bass line. 
>
> Or do I just start with a fresh file and manually insert the sections I want
> from the completed piece?
>
> What I would like any modification to a lyric to flow through the
> composition with out multiple edits.
>
> A reference to the manual is fine.
>
> Thanks
> Graham
>   

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