Re: calling all opera/musical engravers

[Urs Liska]

Am 16.12.2013 22:59, schrieb Kieren MacMillan:
> Hello all!
>
> I would love to hear from anyone who has engraved a full opera or musical (with 
> at least vocal score plus full score) in Lilypond.

First of all: I haven't done this yet. I've only recently prepared a 
book where music and text/other have been mixed mostly on whole pages.
(you may have a look at 
http://lilypondblog.org/2013/12/using-latex-for-a-musical-edition/ if 
you want).

> Specifically:
> 1. Is lilypond-book the only sane way to do it?

It may or may not help you, but you could have a quick look at
http://openlilylib.org/musicexamples/

In its current form it probably isn't usable for your purpose, but I 
intend to extend the package considerably. I want to enable it (through 
Lua in LuaLaTeX) to handle embedded LilyPond code (that also includes 
referenced external files). The idea is that it would do about the same 
as lilypond-book, but from _within_ the LaTeX process. This would have 
the advantages

- not to need intermediate files
  (i.e. having to trade off cluttering the working dir
   and having relative path issues)
- being able to compile the input file directly
  without preprocessing it.

Urs