Re: Bug: headers missing when including file

[Heikki Johannes Junes]

On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> It would certainly be easy to add a new option to ly2dvi to 
> give a full header for each score. I see several question marks, 
> though; should each score start on a new page? If you use the 
> feature to print orchestral parts, you'd want the page numbers
> to start from 1 for each new part, ...
> can you suggest some set of command line options that covers 
> most of the interesting cases? There used to be a '-s' option 
> that generated a separate .dvi file for each \score{} section.

What about (in ly2dvi -h, for example):

  -t,--titles           provide full headers for each (\score{}) section
     --no-titles        omit headers from each section
  -n,--new-pages={1,...} clear a new page for each (listed) section
  -1,--reset-pages={1,...} reset a new page (number=1) for each (listed) section
  -/,--separate={1,...} separate .dvi file for each (listed) section

These options should include all the interesting cases of orchestral music
you mentioned. One should note that lists are optional. Besides, I think
it is wise to start always a separate .dvi file with page number 1.

> As an alternative, you could use lilypond-book, including each piece
> using \lilypondfile{xxx.ly}. Then it is trivial to include the
> necessary page breaks or set page numbers or the page layout. Another
> advantage is that if you update one of the files, lilypond-book will
> only rerun Lilypond on changed pieces, not on all of them.
>    /Mats
>

In order to get strange page numbers, one should use lilypond-book,
definitely. So far, I have needed .midi files while composing .ly files.

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      Heikki Junes