Re: organizing orchestral music

[Urs Liska]

Am 25. Juni 2015 15:07:51 MESZ, schrieb "Gergely K." <address@hidden>:
>On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Orm Finnendahl
><address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Am Donnerstag, den 25. Juni 2015 um 11:35:18 Uhr (+0200) schrieb
>Gergely K.:
>> > Hi all!
>> >
>> > I'd like to engrave orchestral music, one sheet for violinist,
>cellist and
>> > one for conductor.
>> >
>> > I'd like to have the following structure:
>> > base.ly -- name and time signature of the music
>> > violin1.ly -- when opened in frescobaldi, should engrave violin1.ly
>> > main.ly -- when opened in frescobaldi, should engrave conductor's
>sheet
>> >
>> > So my question: can I declare in violin1.ly, that if that is the
>main ly,
>> > it should engrave violin1, and if not, it should not engrave
>anything? (In
>> > that case it will be included from main.ly)
>>
>> I don't know of a simple solution for that problem. I would suggest
>to
>> use the canonical way to completely separate the layout files from
>the
>> music files. So you'd come up with 3 files:
>>
>> violin-music.ly (containing the music only)
>> violin.ly (containing the part layout and including violin-music.ly)
>> score.ly (containing the score layout and including violin-music.ly)
>>
>> IMHO the extra file is well worth the gained clarity and flexibility
>> for fine-tuning score and part layout. In addition I keep layout
>files
>> and files containing the music in different directories.
>
>The only drawback (which is quite big for me), is when you use
>frescobaldi:
>you edit violin-music.ly, and have to switch to violin.ly and press
>manual refresh to update your score!

No, you don't have to. Right-click on the tab of your main file and check 
"always engrave this file".

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