It's interesting how much
a few little clues can help simplify things. I'm arranging a
number of pieces for clarinet quartet. I had been using relative
brute force, using separate blocks for the parts, using external
scripts to generate separate PDF files, etc. The code was
ugly and, as a professional programmer, I hated it.
After watching this list for a while, I learned enough hints about
\parallelMusic and tags and \bookpart to redo things, and suddenly
my Lilypond files are self-contained, workable, and readable. I can
actually find the notes I need to change, instead of wading through
a big, complicated block. I did the entire first movement of
Brandenburg 3 for clarinet quartet in about two days, and I could
not be happier with the results -- both the output and the Lilypond
source are pretty.
I still lose track of the relative octaves while I'm doing data
entry, but that problem is unlikely to be solved through
technology...
My compliments to the long-timers on this list for your patience.
It is only through your repeated explanations that newcomers can
pick up the hints and idioms that make this very large package
manageable.
--
Tim Roberts, address@hidden
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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