Re: variables in \book { }

[Graham King]

On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 19:27 -0500, Ben Strecker wrote:
>     Graham,
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>     Have you tried putting each score inside it’s own \bookpart?
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>     The documentation for ragged-last-bottom says:
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>     ragged-last-bottom

If this is set to false, then the last page, and the last page in each section created with a \bookpart block, will be vertically justified in the same way as the earlier pages.

>     If I’m reading that correctly, that means that unless each score is in a bookpart, ragged-last-bottom only applies to the very last page.
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>     HTH
>     Ben
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Thanks Ben, 
that will be useful once I've found a solution to the immediate problem: defining and using a variable within \book{} or \bookpart{} or \book[part]{ \score { }}
>     \version "2.19.35"
>     \book {
>       music = \relative { c' d e f }
>       \score {
>         \music
>       }
>     }
(In case you were suggesting that I use \bookpart{} within book-titling.ily, I've tried that too and it throws a lot of "unrecognised string" errors.)