Re: Creating marginal comments?

[Knut Petersen]

Hi Tapani!
> Two problems:
> 1. I'm producing a hymnal with 100s of entries. To keep things tidy, those
> hymns are in separate .ly files, and I then use lilypond-book to compile
> them into one document. To embed every music file in a single (massive) .tex
> document is not realistic at this stage of the project.

Well, I agree that it is a good idea to keep the hymns in separate files. TeX knows 
"\input".
But I do not know how much work would it be to edit your scores. It might be an 
easy
automatic process using sed, it might be complicated ...

> 2. I'm too much of a newbie to understand /how/ your method works. Would you
> be able to explain it to me in simple/ish terms, or do I just have to go
> away and buy a LaTeX manual and really learn the language properly? OR,
> alternatively, can I just insert the \newcount commands into my preamble and
> use the \def\callback[etc.] argument in the document?
I prepared a somewhat commented version of hymex.tex. Having a LaTex manual
as well as the TeXbook is always a good idea.

cu,
 Knut

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