Re: Naming output files

[Francisco Vila]

2009/2/26 aabb <address@hidden>:
> I'm using multiple \book{} blocks to create multiple output files from the
> same source (to create versions transposed in different keys). By default
> the second and subsequent books are named by adding suffix "-1", "-2", "-3",
> etc. to the file name. For example, with source file "song.ly" I would get
> output files:
>
> song.pdf
> song-1.pdf
> song-2.pdf
> etc.
>
> Is there any way of changing this? Is there a command I can add to a \book{}
> block to specify the output file name, or the suffix to add to the base
> name. E.g. to get files names such as:
>
> song-C.pdf
> song-Eb.pdf
> etc.
>

The answer is in the manual, see Application Usage 3.2.1
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-program/Invoking-lilypond.html

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