Re: Book creation

[Graham Percival]

On 5-Sep-05, at 3:36 PM, Gordon Gilbert wrote:

> I have composed a Missa Brevis (short Mass) setting with several 
> distinct pieces.  In the past I have simply printed each piece out on 
> separate pages.  However, I would like to put them all together in a 
> book, with title page, contents (with one-bar snippets if that's not 
> too difficult), a page of comments, etc.  Can someone point me to 
> where in the documentation (or elsewhere) I can find *all* the 
> necessary information on doing that?  I have looked in the docs, and 
> found some of it, but I think I am missing something.  I use 2.5.29, 
> and run it on FreeBSD 5.3 with a reasonable amount of horsepower and 
> ram.

There is no place where you can find all this info.  The snippets would 
probably
be done with quotes, the overall book with \book, titles with \header 
and possibly
printallheaders, etc.  You'll need to hunt around in the docs (and 
possibly lilypond-user
as well) to find all this info.

- Graham