Re: calling all opera/musical engravers

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Jean-Charles,

Thanks for the response.

> Have you looked at Nicolas Sceaux's works (http://nicolas.sceaux.free.fr/)?

Yes… but I’ll do so again.

> Lily took care of everything.

That’s good to know — Lily’s all I’ve been using to date (except for the odd 
“academic” paper).

> For Bach, thanks to David Nalesnik and Thomas Morley, a function to center an 
> unique note and align it with R1\fermataMarkup (like in old scores).

Nice! Is that part of the regular distro now?

>> 3. What pitfalls are to be watched for (and hopefully avoided)?
> Part combining needs sometime to use tags in order to be correctly presented 
> to the conductor.

I’m going to start a whole new \partcombine thread/discussion, to see if we can 
knock that whole workflow out of the park.

>> 4. What limitations cannot [currently] be overcome?
> Resetting the page number at the beginning of the musical material (after 
> preface and libretto).

Do you know about bookpart-page-number?

#(define-markup-command (bookpart-page-number layout props) ()
    (let ((first-page-number (ly:output-def-lookup layout 'first-page-number))
          (page-number (chain-assoc-get 'page:page-number props 0)))
      (interpret-markup layout props (format "~a" (1+ (- page-number  
first-page-number))))))

Cheers,
Kieren.