Re: "\includepdf" in LilyPond

[Shane Brandes]

Hi Urs,

I use lilypond to compile the pdfs and then add whatever pdf material
required and then use a concatenate function  to join them the only
downside is working out index pages which is no elegant.

regards,
Shane

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:13 AM, Jan-Peter Voigt <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Urs,
>
> I include xelatex texts by converting each page of the resulting PDF into an
> EPS-file. Those EPS-files are then included in a markup-list to allow
> page-breaking. The XeTeX-source is created with zero-margins dimensions
> fitting into the available space. But if you want to include pages it should
> be possible inside a bookpart with zero-margins.
>
> The question is if the LaTeX way is easier in the end.
>
> I use this for including preface texts of up to three pages and a book full
> of LilyPond scores.
>
> Jan-Peter
>
>
> Am 18.12.2017 um 16:31 schrieb Urs Liska:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> would it be possible (or did anyone already do something like this) to
>> include whole PDF pages between bookparts?
>>
>> I'm thinking of a way to combine title pages and/or prefattory matter with
>> scores and use LaTeX to create the text parts but do it from the LilyPond
>> compilation.
>>
>> In the infrastructure I'd want to do that I'm creating the bookparts
>> manually, i.e. not thorugh top-level \bookpart {} but thorugh
>> ly:book-add-bookpart! and similar functions, so I might have better control
>> over the process than with "simple" LilyPond files.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>> Or should I simply step back and do it from the LaTeX side of things?
>>
>> Best
>> Urs
>>
>>
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