Re: printing individual parts from a multistaff score

[David Stocker]

Or, You could put *all* the notes for each of the different parts into 
one long file called notes.ly:

gtrOneNotes = { ...Guitar I notes... }

gtrTwoNotes = { ...Guitar II notes... }

otherInstrumentNotes = { ...other Instrument notes... }

and do \include "notes.ly" in every part file and in the score file. It 
would also be beneficial to make a template for your parts, to avoid 
duplicate typing.

But, yes. For most of my scores that only contain a few parts, I have a 
"notes.ly" file for each part's notes, and a "partX.ly" file, which 
contains formatting commands for each of the parts and a "score.ly" file 
for the score.

chip wrote:
> So If I understand you correctly - you have 3 files in your example - 
> file 1 is the notes for gtrOneNotes.ly, file 2 is the next section 
> with the 'structure my parts' in the beginning, and then file 3 
> contains the score section. Is that right? If that's right then you 
> have 2 guitar1 files, 2 guitar2 files, 2 drum files, etc. and one 
> score file.
> --
> chip
>
> David Stocker wrote:
> > A better way to approach this is to write a separate file for each of 
> > the parts, and then use \include to assemble the conductor's score. 
> > In fact, I even do my individual parts this way by saving just the 
> > notes in separate files and then using \include to recall those files 
> > in the parts. For example, I'll make two files, named gtrOneNotes.ly 
> > and gtrTwoNotes.ly. These contain *only* the notes for Gtrs. one and 
> > two respectively, defined as variables like this:
> >
> > gtrOneNotes = { ...all of the notes for the Guitar I part... }
> >
> > Then I structure my parts and score like this:
> >
> > %%% begin Guitar I part
> >
> > \version "2.11.62"
> >
> > \include "gtrOneNotes.ly"
> >
> > \score {
> >    \new Staff = "guitar I" {
> >       \set Staff.instrumentName = "Guitar I"
> >       \clef "treble_8"
> >       \key c \major
> >       \time 4/4
> >
> >       \gtrOneNotes
> >    }
> > }
> >
> > %%% end Guitar I part
> >
> > and for the score:
> >
> > %%% begin score of Guitar Duet
> >
> > \version "2.11.62
> >
> > \include "gtrOneNotes.ly"
> >
> > \include "gtrTwoNotes.ly"
> >
> > \score {
> >  <<
> >    \context StaffGroup <<
> >      \new Staff = "Guitar I" {
> >        \set Staff.instrumentName = "Guitar I"
> >        \clef "treble_8"
> >        \time 4/4
> >          \gtrOneNotes
> >      }
> >
> >      \new Staff = "Guitar II" {
> >        \set Staff.instrumentName = "Guitar II"
> >        \clef "treble_8"
> >        \time 4/4
> >
> >        \gtrTwoNotes
> >      }
> >    >>
> >  >>
> > }
> >
> > %%% end score of Guitar Duet
> >
> > This allows me to separate different tasks into different files. This 
> > also allows for different formating and staff sizes for the parts and 
> > score, which is almost always desirable.
> >
> > Just make sure that any files that refer to each other are located in 
> > the same directory.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > chip wrote:
> > > I have written a conductors score that contains parts for 6 
> > > instruments, now how do I print the individual instruments sheet 
> > > music? I can't find this info in the manuals.
> > >
> > >
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