Re: bookparts with paper blocks

[Francisco Vila]

2013/5/1 Federico Bruni <address@hidden>:
> 2013/4/30 Francisco Vila <address@hidden>
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> In "File structure" we are saying that bookparts can help on having
>> different paper settings for each part, but in fact this conflicts
>> with the statement we state (in the same page) that paper settings act
>> on the whole book.
>>
>> This is confusing, do you agree?
>>
>
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/file-structure
>
> I don't think it's really confusing, but it may be better explained with
> examples.
> I think that we may add a paper block and an explanation in the last snippet
> of this page:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/multiple-scores-in-a-book
>
> BTW, Trevor recently pushed this:
> https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2902
>
> see NR 4.1.1:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/the-_005cpaper-block

What I read all around is that settings are merged. The interesting
bit is a hierarchical prevalence. But a simple experiment which I'm
sure many users have tried, is to set a variable in a paper block in a
bookpart, and see how this variable affects the whole book. Any
example from us should show that you can not expect this setting
affects only to that bookpart unless you have a setting in a higher
hierarchy that acts as a default for the rest of the book.

>> I've also seen many unanswered questions in the list archives about
>> using bookparts to join scores. IMO it is confusing that we don't
>> offer a template or something warning that you can not simply include
>> a working score in a bookpart, and instead you have to handle a
>> bookpart as if it were a score block.
>
>
> I can't understand your last sentence.

Handle a bookpart as if it were a score block, in the sense of you can
not put assignments on it. What one expects is to have a working file
with both variable assignments and a \score{}, and simply put it
inside of a bookpart{}, which can not be done just as you can not put
assignments into the \score{}. I think it is common that users want to
join scores in a book and first thing they try involves leaving their
original files untouched. This is not possible: you have to split
every file in two, and include them in different places of the master
file, namely assignments outside of the bookpart and scores inside of.

-- 
Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com