Re: Producing a title page

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Richard Shann-2 wrote
> Nicholas Sceaux created code for doing this, which has been adapted
> inside Denemo. So you could use that directly, or use Denemo to create
> your title page and just steal the LilyPond code from there. There is an
> example of the sort of title page you can get here:
> http://imslp.org/wiki/Pavana_%26_Galliarda_Dolorosa_%28Philips,_Peter%29
> 
> this also includes table of contents etc. The source code is on the
> Denemo website.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 17:48 +0000, David Sumbler wrote:
>> Having now got LilyPond 2.18.0 set up on my two machines, thanks to all
>> the help from the list, I have now started trying to adjust the output
>> of the pieces I have so far produced.
>> 
>> I have used \header blocks for title, composer etc., and these are
>> working as I would wish.
>> 
>> However, I should like to produce a separate title page which precedes
>> the music, but everything I have tried so far doesn't work.  Usually I
>> either get additional text added to the first page of music, or I get no
>> title above the music itself.
>> 
>> Of course, I could easily create a title page in LibreOffice or similar,
>> but as LilyPond seems to have sufficient markup capabilities to do
>> anything I am likely to want on a title page, it seems a shame not to
>> keep the whole thing in the one place.
>> 
>> What I would like to do is to have some items (e.g. title, composer)
>> appearing on page 1, and some of the same ones appearing above the music
>> which starts on page 2 (or perhaps page 3 in some cases).  I imagine it
>> is possible to set things up so that the data only appears once in the
>> file - e.g. "Title" appears once in the .ly file, but appears both on
>> the title page (page 1) and on the first page of music.
>> 
>> Here is an abbreviated example of one of my efforts:
>> 
>> 
>> \version "2.18.0"
>> 
>> \book {
>>     \paper {
>>      indent = 0\mm
>>      scoreTitleMarkup = \markup {
>>          \fill-line {
>>              \null
>>              \fontsize #3 \bold \fromproperty #'header:piece
>>              \null
>>          }
>>      }
>>      first-page-number = #2
>>     }
>> 
>>     \header {
>>      title       = "Partita"
>>      subtitle    = "for solo marimba"
>>     }
>> 
>>     \score {
>>      { c'1 c' }
>>      \header { piece = "I.  Allemande" }
>>      \layout { }
>>     }
>>     \pageBreak
>> 
>>     \score {
>>      { d'1 d' }
>>      \header { piece = "II.  Courante" }
>>      \layout { }
>>     }
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> How should I alter this to get a title page showing "Partita" and "for
>> solo marimba" on a title page preceding the music pages?
>> 
>> David
>> 
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Richard,

Where abouts on the Denemo website is the source code for that cover page
'template'? Thanks!



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