RE: Producing a title page

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Peter Gentry wrote
>>
>>Message: 3
>>Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:48:42 +0000
>>From: David Sumbler <

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>>To: 

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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:
>>
>>
>>\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
> How about this as a possibility:
> 
> % Mozart Quartet K464 Line 1 Bb Clarinet pitch         \
> % File K464_Bb_L1.ly                                              \
> % ----------------------------------------------------------
> \version "2.16.0"
> #(set-global-staff-size 20)
> 
> %--------------------------------------------------------------------
> % variables for later use to avoid repititions
> %---------------------------------------------------------------------
> date = #(strftime "%d-%m-%Y" (localtime (current-time)))
> xtitle = "String Quartet K464"
> xsubtitle = "transposed for flute, clarinet, alto flute, and bass
> clarinet"
> xChristian = "Wolfgang Amadeus"
> xSurname = "Mozart"
> xdates = "(1756-1791)"
> xpart = "Clarinet 1"
> xinstrument = "Clt 1"
> xmidiInstrument = "clarinet"
> xgraphic="./mozza2.eps" 
> xstamp = \markup{\concat { "Engraved "  \bold \date " with "  \with-url
> #"http://lilypond.org/"; "LilyPond " \simple
> #(lilypond-version) " (http://lilypond.org/)" }  }
> 
> %-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> % variable to control minimum ledger space after pageturn shrinkage 
> %-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ledgers =  \override Staff.LedgerLineSpanner #'minimum-length-fraction =
> #0.4
>                 
> 
> % ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> % header for the first page only
> %--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> \header {
>   mycustomtext= \markup  {
>       \fill-line {
>           \column {
>              \center-align {
>                                     \xstamp 
>                                     " "
>                                     \fontsize #-1 "Original
> IMSLP64141-PMLP05225-Mozart_Werke_Breitkopf_Serie_14_KV464"
>                                     \fontsize #-1 "Clarinet Quartet
> Copyright @ 2002 by Oliver Seeley and assigned to the public
> domain" }
>                     }            
>                 } 
>             }
>         }
> % -----------------------------------------------------------
> % define staffclarinet
> % -----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> staffinstrument = \new Staff {
>       \set Staff.instrumentName = \xinstrument
>       \set Staff.midiInstrument = \xmidiInstrument
> }
> 
> % -----------------------------------------------------------
> % set the paper layout for binding
> % footer has title and page number
> % -----------------------------------------------------------
> \paper {
>               two-sided = ##t
>                 top-margin = 10\mm
>                 bottom-margin = 10\mm          
>                 inner-margin = 20 \mm
>               outer-margin = 15 \mm
>               binding-offset = 5 \mm
>               first-page-number = #1
>                 blank-after-score-page-force = #10
>                 page-breaking = #ly:page-turn-breaking   
>                 ragged-bottom = ##t 
>                 indent = 0\mm
>                 print-page-number = ##t
>                 print-first-page-number = ##f
>                 oddHeaderMarkup = \markup \null
>                 evenHeaderMarkup = \markup \null
>                 oddFooterMarkup = \markup {
>                                                  \fill-line {
>                                                    \null \fontsize #2 
> \fromproperty #'header:mycustomtext 
>                                                       \on-the-fly
> #print-page-number-check-first
>                                                    \fontsize #2 
> \fromproperty #'page:page-number-string
>                                                               } % end of
> fill line
> 
>                                                           } % end of
> markup block
>                 evenFooterMarkup = \oddFooterMarkup
>          } % end of paper block
> 
> % -----------------------------------------------------------
> % typeset the music in a book                                   
> % use bookpart for individual movements      
> % -----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> \book {
> 
> % -----------------------------------------------------------
> % Frontispiece block - note use of variables
> % -----------------------------------------------------------
> \markuplist {
>         \justified-lines {
>              \hspace #8
>         {\fontsize #8  \xChristian \fontsize #8 \xSurname } }
>   }
> 
> \markuplist {
>         \justified-lines {
>             \vspace #1 
>              \hspace #26
>         {\fontsize #6  \xdates} }
>   }
> \markuplist { 
>         \justified-lines {
>             \vspace #1 
>             \hspace #12
>             {\fontsize #12  \xtitle } }
>  }
> 
> \markuplist {
>        \justified-lines { 
>          \vspace #2 
>          \hspace #18 
>           {\fontsize #4 \xsubtitle} }
> }
> 
> 
> \markup {
>       \vspace #6
>       \hspace #20
>       \general-align #Y #DOWN {\epsfile #Y #40 #"./mozza2.eps" }              
>                 
>       }  
> 
> \markuplist {
>        \justified-lines { 
>          \vspace #2 
>          \hspace #32 
>           {\fontsize #8 \xpart} }
> }
> 
>   
> \markuplist {  
>        \wordwrap-lines {             
>                \vspace #2
>                { Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart baptismal name Johannes
> Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (27 January 1756 - 5
> December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical
> era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as
> pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music.
> He is among the most enduringly popular of classical
> composers.
>  
> Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg.
> Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from
> the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, he was
> engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and
> travelled in search of a better position, always composing abundantly.
> While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his
> Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame
> but little financial security. During his final years in
> Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and
> operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely
> unfinished at the time of his death. 
>  
> Mozart learned voraciously from others, and developed a brilliance and
> maturity of style that encompassed the light and graceful
> along with the dark and passionate. His influence on subsequent Western
> art music is profound. Beethoven composed his own early
> works in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote that posterity will
> not see such a talent again in 100 years.
>   } 
>     }      
> }
> 
>  \pageBreak
>      
> 
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Hi Peter

I commented out the EPS reference and added the bracket, works great now no
errors thanks! :)

But, FYI: I see some hiccups in my log file - any idea why? Have a great
weekend!

Ben

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