Re: organizing orchestral music

[Gergely K.]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Orm Finnendahl
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 25. Juni 2015 um 11:35:18 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Gergely K.:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I'd like to engrave orchestral music, one sheet for violinist, cellist and
> > one for conductor.
> >
> > I'd like to have the following structure:
> > base.ly -- name and time signature of the music
> > violin1.ly -- when opened in frescobaldi, should engrave violin1.ly
> > main.ly -- when opened in frescobaldi, should engrave conductor's sheet
> >
> > So my question: can I declare in violin1.ly, that if that is the main ly,
> > it should engrave violin1, and if not, it should not engrave anything? (In
> > that case it will be included from main.ly)
>
> I don't know of a simple solution for that problem. I would suggest to
> use the canonical way to completely separate the layout files from the
> music files. So you'd come up with 3 files:
>
> violin-music.ly (containing the music only)
> violin.ly (containing the part layout and including violin-music.ly)
> score.ly (containing the score layout and including violin-music.ly)
>
> IMHO the extra file is well worth the gained clarity and flexibility
> for fine-tuning score and part layout. In addition I keep layout files
> and files containing the music in different directories.

The only drawback (which is quite big for me), is when you use frescobaldi:
you edit violin-music.ly, and have to switch to violin.ly and press
manual refresh to update your score!