Re: include header conflicts

[Christopher R. Maden]

On 11/25/2012 08:12 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> I've got an individual .ly file for each cue (song or orchestral 
> interlude) in my musical. I want to include them in a complete
> score .ly file, but when I do that the header variables conflict
> (e.g., the first or last 'title' or 'piece' value gets printed in
> the header of all scores).
> 
> It's probably something small that I'm doing wrong — so rather
> than try to build a minimal example, I was hoping someone out there
> might be able to diagnose the problem from past experience and give
> me a hint on how to solve it.

This should probably become a FAQ.

You need to split each cue into two files: foo_music.ly contains the
actual music (staves, notes, phrasing, etc.) and variable definitions
(e.g., fooTitle = "Foo"), while foo.ly has \include foo_music.ly and
the headers with things like title=\fooTitle).  Then, in your complete
score, you \include all of the *_music.ly files with appropriate
headers for the full score.

~Chris
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