Re: How to append a git version to an output filename

[David Kastrup]

Ben Beeson <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi David,
> Here is how I get the \gitCommitish in the tagline. First, include the
> "gitDefinitions.ily" file.

What is that?

> I use something like this:
>
> \include "/home/workspace/include/gitDefinitions.ily" 
>
> Then in the header declaration, add the \gitCommitish and any other
> items desired  to the tagline entry: 
>
> \header { 
>           title = "Title"     
>           composer = ""
>           arranger = ""
>           meter = ""
>           tagline = \markup { \filename  " " \source " "  git Version:
> \gitCommitish  Committed: \gitDateTime
>           Engraved:
>           \simple #(strftime "%d - %b - %Y - %H%M  " (localtime
> (current-time)))
>                }    
> }
>
> An example tagline from a score I am editing presently looks like this:
>
>
> Here \source is just a note to remind me where I got the information i
> used. This could be person's name or whatever. For the tagline above,
> \source is "null", so that value is missing from the tagline.   I hope
> that  the above is helpful to others. 
>
> Regarding your comment about adding an expression to \bookOutputSuffix
> -- that is what I am trying to do.  That said, 
>
> \bookOutputSuffix "\gitCommitish" or \bookOutputSuffix =
> \gitCommitish  does not work as expected.

What about

\bookOutputSuffix \gitCommitish

then?

> The Guile information I have seen so far online has not been too
> helpful for this particular question.

string-append and similar functions exist.

-- 
David Kastrup