Re: bookOutputName variable title

[Hans Åberg]

> On 15 Apr 2020, at 22:31, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Am Mittwoch, den 15.04.2020, 22:30 +0200 schrieb Hans Åberg:
>>> On 15 Apr 2020, at 21:56, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> If you change
>>> 
>>> \bookOutputName \title
>>> to
>>> \bookOutputName "test"
>>> it works.
>>> 
>>> This is because Frescobaldi is not able to resolve the "\title"
>>> variable. This has been known for a long time and is anything but
>>> trivial, as you can see from discussion here: 
>>> https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/issues/546
>> 
>> Maybe lilypond should be able to communicate that information, say by
>> an extra file.
>> 
> 
> LilyPond *does* communicate that information in the Log output, but
> (IIRC) not in a sufficiently "stable" format for Frescobaldi to
> reliably determine.

I was thinking of a way to pass arguments to lilypond of which information one 
wants, and it then writes a file in a stable format.