Re: combining pieces in one book

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: ""Dr. med. Kai Lautenschläger"" <address@hidden>
To: "lilypond-user User" <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 2:53 PM
Subject: combining pieces in one book


> Hi to all,
>
> If this has been answered before, please point me there. I searched the 
> manual several times, but couldn't find an answer, that helped me.
>
> I have many pieces for male choir, that are stored as .ly-files in a 
> directory with a subdirectory for every piece. All of them use some files 
> via \include command. Those files are situated in the parent directory.
>
> Now I would like to make a book (one PDF with TOC and numbered pages) from 
> several of these pieces. And - to make it more complicated - this book 
> changes in content (the .ly-files are the repertoire, book will be the 
> selection for any given concert.
>
> I am searching for a solution to _easily_ make those books without working 
> on the pieces-files. Using \bookpart gave a great number of errors and 
> didn't compile. Can anyone give me a starter, how to go about this?
>
> Thanks
> Kai


2 obvious options come to mind:  lilypond-book, which is documented in the 
Usage manual 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/usage/lilypond_002dbook.

Alternatively, you can simply use \book in the following way:

\book {
 \markup { "Some text" }
 \include "AFile.ly"
}

You would need to add your own contents page once the layout was sorted out.

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Phil Holmes