Re: .ly templates?

[Mats Bengtsson]

Nice idea! I vote for the full template file since it
gives larger freedom. One idea would be to add these
templates in the emacs mode. There are several Emacs
packages available that support such templates. 
I use similar templates for LaTeX files.
In the list of templates, don't forget choir music. 
I don't know how many times we've got requests for 
such examples. Also, solo instrument plus piano is a 
common case. The orchestral score/parts requires some
thinking since you want to produce both from the same
(included) ly code.

  /Mats

> Hi,
> 
> I think it would be a good idea to have a set of template .ly files
> for commonly used score types.  The example files in the distribution
> already partially fill that need, but ideally they would be
> uniformised, include all titling (maybe some stuff commented out),
> contain just one measure of simple music, and be clearly tagged as
> being a certain template.
> 
> Another approach would be to not include any music in the templates,
> and standardise the naming of the music, so that you'd do:
> 
>     title = 'Piano piece'
>     upper = \notes { ... }
>     lower = \notes { ... }
> 
>     \include "template/piano.ly"
> 
> In this case, we'd also need one simple music example file per
> template.  This approach can be even easier to use, but is not very
> flexible, it only works for simple and uniform pieces.
> 
> Possibly some of you already have created something like this?  I was
> thinking of having templates for:
> 
>   single melody
>   melody with lyrics
>   melody with lyrics and chords
>   piano
>   piano with lyrics
>   piano with lyrics and chords
>   string quartet
>   orchestral score
>   orchestral part
> 
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Jan.
> 
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