Re: lilypond book issues version 2.5.19

[Karl Hammar]

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> > Its not a matter circumventing any limitations of Lilypond, but of being
> > able to use the full power of LaTeX. It would not be practical to add
> > anything to LilyPond itself to get this functionality as using it would
> > involve (at least) two calls to lilypond. Actually I already have this
> > functionality (and more) as I call Lilypond from LyX, using a LyX
> > converter that I am developing and this can do some post-processing on
> > the file produced by lilypond-book. The code for the converter at the
> > moment is a bit of a mess and is really only usable by me. I will
> > release it sometime, but I will probably wait till the next version of
> > LyX is released as that will change the way converters are handled.
> > However life would be easier if it could be done with  a macro.
> 
> I'm just trying to help the LilyPond hackers to judge if your request
> is of sufficiently general interest to be worth to implement and
> support. So far, I have to say that your request looks fairly exotic
> to me and I can't see that there would be a large group of users that
> would use it.
> If you prove me wrong, I'd be happy to change my mind (can't promise
> about the main developers, though).
> 
>     /Mats

I would appreciate if I in latex could get the first and last \piece,
\mark number, and bar number on a page to be able to put it in page
headers/footers, or add some footnotes from within the music,
as some editors do.

Regards
/Karl