Re: songbook from Lily scores

[M Watts]

Francisco Vila wrote:
> 2009/2/6 Zoltan Kota <address@hidden>:
>   
> > I have been using Lily for a year now, and I have several music scores
> > as separate lily files. I would like to make a songbook including
> > them, with cover page, table of contents, correct page numbering, etc.
> > How should I start? What sectiones should I learn in documentation?
> > Lilypond-book? Any useful info and tips are welcome!
> >     
>
> If your preferred system to produce documents is LaTex, go learn
> lilypond.-book. You'll have a TOC and page numbering.
>
> If all the scores span a single page maximum, inserting them as images
> could be an option for word processors.
>
> A third approach is to make multiple PDFs and pack  them together with
> Adobe Acrobat or a free tool. A coherent numbering and an automatic
> TOC would be much more difficult in this case.
>
>   

If your needs aren't too elaborate, you could just write another 
LilyPond file with a bunch of \include lines and some additional 
header/footer information.

For lilypond-book, start here:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-program/LilyPond_002dbook#LilyPond_002dbook

Also search the list archives -- e.g. there are example .lytex and .ly 
files for use with lilypond-book attached to:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-11/msg00347.html