RE: Producing a title page

[SoundsFromSound]

Peter Gentry wrote
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>>Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:48:42 +0000
>>From: David Sumbler <

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>>Subject: Producing a title page
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>>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:
>>
>>
> .....
>     }      
> }
> 
>  \pageBreak
>      
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Peter,
I tried to use your code and I kept getting an error:

error: syntax error, unexpected end of input
 \pageBreak

Do you know how to remedy this? I attempted this code with 2.16 and 2.18.
Thanks!



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