Re: MIDI files are overwritten when using \book

[Erik Sandberg]

Thanks, added to bug cvs.

erik

On Wednesday 24 November 2004 11.08, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> I forward it to bug-lilypond as it at least is an incompatibility
> with earlier versions.
>
> One way to get midi files with different names is to include each \score
> in a separate \book{...}. However, then you will also get a separate
> .pdf file for each score, which maybe is not what you want.
>
>     /Mats
>
> Maurizio Tomasi wrote:
> > Consider the following file `test.ly':
> >
> > \book {
> >     \score {
> >     \relative c' { c4 d e f g1 }
> >     \midi {}
> >     }
> >
> >     \score {
> >     \relative g' { g4 f e d c1 }
> >     \midi {}
> >     }
> > }
> >
> > The output of Lilypond is the following:
> >
> > $ lilypond --no-layout test.ly
> > GNU LilyPond 2.4.2
> > Processing `test.ly'
> > Parsing...
> > Interpreting music...
> > MIDI output to `test.midi'...
> > Track...
> > Interpreting music...
> > MIDI output to `test.midi'...
> > Track...
> >
> > The resulting `test.midi' file contains only the second score: to me
> > this seems a bug.
> >
> > I remember that older Lilypond versions created test.midi, test-1.midi
> > and so on.  How can I force such a behaviour with \book?
> >
> > Regards,
> >   Maurizio.