Re: making a book with LilyPond

[Federico Bruni]

Hi Jan,

thanks for your reply.

Actually, I had tried \bookpart (see the 1st example below, in my 
first email) but I have problems with \include.


If in the included files there's an \include (even a simple include 
"english.ly"), it can't compile.

I attach a tiny example, where book-test.ly includes file1.ly and 
file2.ly.
It works just if you comment out the \include lines in file1.ly and 
file2.ly.

Why?

I've checked this page:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/user/lilypond/Including-LilyPond-files#Including-LilyPond-files

All the files I want to include are in 
~/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/ly

so it's not a matter of path


Jan-Peter Voigt wrote:
> Hello Frederico,
>
> you can use \bookpart :
>
> \book {
>    \bookpart{
>       \tocItem ...
>        \header {
>          title = ...
>        }
>    }
>    \bookpart{
>       \tocItem ...
>        \header {
>          title = ...
>        }
>    }
> }
>
> If you surround every piece with a bookpart-statement, you dont need to 
> pagebreak.
> My mobile INet-Connection is quite slow right now, so you have to google 
> to find the right page in the docs.
> Or someone else has a pointer ;)
>
> I hope it helps!
> regards,
> Jan-Peter
>
> Federico Bruni schrieb:
> > I'm trying to compile a number of scores in a book using just LilyPond 
> > (I've tried lilypond-book before, but I had some trouble with layout 
> > and as I'm not confident with LaTeX I dropped it).
> >
> > I need a help to start in the right way.
> >
> > What I want to print:
> > * table of content
> > * scores (let's say 2 scores, as example)
> >
> > Each score should have the title printed at the beginning.
> > Page numbers should start from the first score, not from the toc page: 
> > so from page 2 and not page 1 of the output.
> >
> > In order to get a title for each piece, I guess I need to use \bookpart.
> > I tried the code below, but I get some weird error messages.. 
> > Probably, there's something wrong with the way I've included the files 
> > in \bookpart
> >
> > Any suggestion?
> > Thanks,
> > Federico
> >
> > ================================================================================== 
> >
> >
> > \version "2.13.3"
> >
> > \paper {
> >   % I'll add something later
> > }
> >
> >
> > \bookpart {
> >   \header {
> >     title = "Score 1"
> >   }
> >   \include "score1.ly"
> > }
> >
> > \bookpart {
> >   \header {
> >     title = "Score 2"
> >   }
> >   \include "score2.ly"
> > }
> >
> > ==================================================================================== 
> >
> >
> > If I use the code below, the file compiles but I can't get the titles 
> > at the beginning of each score.
> >
> > \version "2.13.3"
> >
> > \markuplines \table-of-contents
> > \pageBreak
> >
> > \tocItem \markup "Score 1"
> > \include "score1.ly"
> > \pageBreak
> >
> > \tocItem \markup "Score 2"
> > \include "score2.ly"
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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\version "2.13.3"

\book {
  
  \markuplines \table-of-contents
  \pageBreak 
  
   \bookpart{
      \tocItem \markup "Score 1"
       \include "file1.ly"
   }
   \bookpart{
      \tocItem \markup "Score 2"
       \include "file2.ly"
   }
}

\version "2.13.3"
\include "english.ly"

\header {
  title= "Score 1"
}

{ c d e f }

\version "2.13.3"
\include "english.ly"


\header {
  title= "Score 2"
}

{ g a b c }