Re: How to get \fromproperty to work with score headers?

[Graham King]

On Sun, 2017-10-29 at 15:30 +0000, Graham King wrote:
>     On Sun, 2017-10-29 at 03:21 -0700, Shevek wrote: 
> > Does anyone know if there's an updated version of
> > http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=467 to work with score-level headers?
> > It's listed as "to do" in the snippet, but I believe that dates back to
> > several years ago. I'd like to use \fromproperty #'header:piece to put
> > movement titles at the top of pages. 
> >
> > If there isn't a newer version that supports this, I can mess around with
> > trying to get it working, but I'd appreciated it if anyone can point me in
> > the right direction to start; what would score-level headers be called? is
> > the existing snippet structure adequate or is more complexity needed to cope
> > with bookparts consisting of multiple scores?
> >
> >     
>     How about approaching the problem from another direction?  Would something like this be OK?
>     
>     \version "2.19.40"
>     
>     htitle="Trahe me post te"
>     hcomposer="Victoria"
>     
>     \header {
>       title=\htitle
>       composer=\hcomposer
>     }
>     
>     { c''1 \pageBreak 1 \pageBreak 1 }
>     
>     \paper{
>       evenHeaderMarkup=\markup  \fill-line {
>         \fromproperty #'page:page-number-string
>         \htitle \hcomposer
>       }
>       oddHeaderMarkup= \markup  \fill-line {
>         \on-the-fly #not-first-page \hcomposer
>         \on-the-fly #not-first-page \htitle 
>         \on-the-fly #not-first-page \fromproperty #'page:page-number-string
>       }
>     }
>     
>     With acknowledgments to Nacho Alvarez for the idea. 
I don't think this will work for "bookparts with multiple scores."  You need a proper expert...
Apologies for the noise.