Re: Patch for lilypond-book to support separate titling and indexing in LaTeX

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Hello Michael,

thanks for your patch!

Michael Haynie schreef:
> I've been working on a largish collection of hymns for the last several 
> years.  The collection includes lead sheets, piano scoring, and 
> orchestral arrangements, and a hymnal.  There are now several thousand 
> files in the source base.  As you might imagine, automation is really 
> important to my sanity <G>.  To support that, I've modified 
> lilypond-book to help me with the construction of the hymnal.  This 
> patch allows me to set up titling and indexing in LaTeX (which it does 
> very well), while allowing Lilypond to engrave the music.  So: the patch 
> makes it possible to automatically construct a fairly elaborate hymnal 
> type work, but at the cost of making installation a little more difficult.

> Would it be better to generate the macros in the source directory and 
> automatically generate the input statement?  (I think this might be hard 
> to do, but I see that we do something similar with \usepackage{graphics}).

I think the file should be generated/copied to the output directory. 
Since files in that directory are surely seen by latex, it's a safe choice.

> The lilypond invocation is modified to include '-H all' by default.  
> Agreed?

No problem.

> I'd be happy to contribute a writeup on using this scheme to either the 
> documentation, or the snippet repository.  What would you prefer?  I can 
> give detailed instructions on the whole process from arranging the pages 
> to to constructing the indexing automatically, to constructing the 
> signatures for binding.

Please do; I'm still a bit in doubt whether the header file should be 
part of LilyPond proper or an add-on. In any event, it should use lily 
style naming, eg.

  lilypond-latex-system-macros.tex

also, detailed information on making a book with using should probably 
be in a separate document, since that process is in a large part 
external to lily.


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