Re: calling all opera/musical engravers

[Alex Loomis]

Would you mind explaining that code? My scheme is, alas, nearly nonexistent, 
and I have a project where I would like to change what is page one.


On Dec 21, 2013, at 7:23 PM, Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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.
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