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From: | Urs Liska |
Subject: | Re: Advice sought on making parts for string quartet |
Date: | Wed, 13 Mar 2019 11:26:47 +0100 |
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Hi Andrew, Am 13.03.19 um 11:10 schrieb Andrew Bernard:
I'm seeking the advice of the list expertise on the topic of producing parts for a string quartet. I think I know the answer to this in advance, but I want to validate my ideas. In the score I am setting for a composer colleague, we are fussy about pagination and line breaks. Lilypond does a marvellous job of layout out music, but all our scores use explicit page and line breaks at all times. I don't currently use a separate part to control the layout vis a vis line and page breaking, since the time signature changes multiple times per pages and it would be a major headache, two hundred pages of trying to track that separately.The issue is that if I use tags to produce a score and parts as per the standard examples, the explicitly written page breaks cause the parts to have page breaks after each line, obviously, instead of line breaks.I cannot be the only person to need to deal with this. What's the best practice for making parts when using explicit page breaking?
I would say this is a prime use case for the edition-engraver that allows you to inject a \break based on measure number (regardless of time changes along the way). Presumably you can make life even simpler using the openLilyLib package "page-layout" (depending on "breaks" and "edition-engraver").
With this you can register "break sets" with line breaks, page breaks and page turns and assign them to a label (e.g. score, violinI, violinII, va, vc). Then in the individual part file you'd say \applyConditionalBreaks violinII.
The usage example https://github.com/openlilylib/page-layout/blob/master/usage-examples/conditional-breaks.ly should give you a quick idea, although it is done for manuscript/original-edition.
HTH Urs
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