Re: PDF metadata missing if \header is within a \bookpart block

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno dom 3 lug 2016 alle 11:52, David Kastrup <address@hidden> ha 
scritto:
> >  It's a bug? I think so. LilyPond should check if there's a \header
> >  block in an higher level (\book); if there is no \header in a higher
> >  level, it should use the \header values within \bookpart.
>
> Which bookpart?  There is one PDF per book, but several bookparts per
> PDF.  So it does not make sense to put per-PDF values, like the title
> metadata is, in bookparts.

Yes, I imagined this. But I hoped that LilyPond could parse the file, 
see that there's only one \header block defined within the \bookpart 
block and use that for metadata, since there's nothing else to use on 
higher levels (\book, etc.).

> >  This is important to me because:
> >
> >  1. Most of my songs are wrapped in \bookpart blocks, because I can
> >  then make a book just including the files from a master \book file
>
> So why don't you then make a title for that master \book?  How is
> LilyPond to know which bookpart to take the title from?

Let me explain better.
In a directory I have single files for each song. I want to compile 
each of them as a standalone PDF. But I also want to include them in a 
master file which acts as an anthology book.
So the master file already works fine, because the \header is in the 
top level.
The problem is with each single song, because the songs use \bookpart.