Re: Creating multi-score books

[Urs Liska]

Am 16. Februar 2017 07:02:10 MEZ schrieb Don Gingrich <address@hidden>:
>I've got a basic problem, and I'm not having much
>joy with the documentation.
>
>Over the past few years I've created several scores
>for folk songs. 
>
>Now, I'm going to be doing a workshop discussing
>their origins.
>
>What I'd like to create is:
>
><title page in TeX>
>
><text page discussing song 1 in TeX>
>
><score of song one in ly >
>
><text page discussing song 2 in TeX>
>
><score of song 2 in ly >
>
>and so on
>
>I'm probably more familiar with LaTeX than
>LilyPond, so I'd really prefer to do the cover
>page and discussion in TeX and the scores
>in LilyPond.

If I don't misunderstand you I would compile the songs individually and include 
them using \includepdf.

HTH
Urs


>
>Note that some of the scores were originally 
>entered using MuseScore and the converted
>using xml2ly -- so the LilyPond code is *ugly*
>but works as a standalone score. In my copious
>free time I'd like to shift these converted scores
>into clean code, but it's in the "if it ain't broke....."
>category unless the converted stuff is likely to be
> breaking things.
>
>My minimal example winds up being several hundred
>lines, so I've not included it. 
>
>I tried this:
>
>\header {
>  title = "Eight miniatures"
>  composer = "Igor Stravinsky"
>}
>\score {
>  …
>  \header { piece = "Romanze" }
>}
>\markup {
>   …text of second verse…
>}
>\markup {
>   …text of third verse…
>}
>\score {
>  …
>  \header { piece = "Menuetto" }
>}
>
>With including the score files and it
>did not work.
>
>I tried this first:
>
>\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
>
>\begin{document}
>
>Documents for \verb+lilypond-book+ may freely mix music and text.
>For example,
>
>Options are put in brackets.
>
>Larger examples can be put into a separate file, and introduced with
>\verb+\lilypondfile+.
>
>\lilypondfile[quote,noindent]{MyFileName.ly}
>
>(If needed, replace @file{screech-and-boink.ly} by any @file{.ly} file
>you put in the same directory as this file.)
>
>\end{document}
>
>And all that I got was the filename printed where the score should
>have been.
>
>I also looked at the thread titled:
>"Problem with lilypond-book and \markup blocks" from 2007
>But when I tried to add a header after the \score{ -- e.g.
>\score {
> \header{
> title = "some silly thing"
>   composer = "Not Mozart"
>    }
>    {
>        <<
>
>The title and composer disappeared into the ether -- clearly
>the method here only works for snippets, not full or multi-page
>scores.
>
>I keep banging at this and getting nowhere.
>
>
>As putting a bunch of individual scores together into a book may
>be a more or less common task, a good template would be brilliant
>and potentially useful for others
>
>Thanks,
>
>-Don
>
>-- 
>Don Gingrich
>
>
>
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