Re: include puzzlement

[David Kastrup]

Shane Brandes <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks all, and Kieran that pattern will definitely work for future
> projects. Unfortunately that leaves me with unwinding, separating the
> music from the score definitions,  200 some such files for a current
> one to get it to work. I had anticipated that the whole bookpart thing
> simply encapsulated that bit of information in its own little section
> and would therefore work. That probably has to do with the idea that
> some years ago I used to simply copy each piece in line together and
> they would merrily create themselves then at some point the code
> operating the headers was change such that that no longer worked. I
> thought the whole bookpart was added to restore such functionality,
> but the underlying mechanism is oddly different and it must be to do
> with with who the lilypond does business and since I have learned
> anything other than basic and python not much beyond how it functions
> not that I could code my way out of a paper bag.

Frankly, talking your way out of a paper bag seems like a challenge
right now, too.  All this verbiage appears to indicate that LilyPond
changed for the worse at some point of time for your use pattern, but I
cannot make head nor tails of it.

-- 
David Kastrup