Re: Primo/secondo layout

[Abraham Lee]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 12:06 PM Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:

> Le mardi 21 mars 2023 à 12:00 -0600, Abraham Lee a écrit :
>
> I think the only thing that Dorico has advertised that I haven't figured
> out how to do automagically in LP is the Primo/Secondo layout for
> multi-person piano scores (or similar). Does anyone know of a way?
>
> There's a long-standing feature request about it, #902
> <https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/902>.
>
Yep.


> It'd be tough to do in Scheme since it touches the page breaking stuff,
> which is essentially C++-only. It's *probably* not hard to implement in
> the C++ code, just a bit tedious.
>
I am amazed that you have enough insight into the code to make that
observation. Like I said, not a huge problem for me. A person could create
this score format manually and piece them together with PDF manipulation
tools, but an automated solution would be extremely satisfying.