Re: Scripting the \paper blocks output

[N. Andrew Walsh]

Hi Andrew,

Ha! Works like a charm! Thanks, that's going to be super-handy when I, uh … start my lilypond publishing empire. Seriously, though, that's some cool scripting magic.

For others who might want to use the function, one remark: note that the quotation marks for the "catalog-number" variable are not straight-quotes in the provided example (they're so-called "smart-quotes", which Scheme does not recognize and throws a syntax error if not replaced). So, make that trivial change, and you're all set for automagically-generated catalog IDs. I also re-named the variable to "composer-shortstring" to make clear that it's not the definition set in \header, and that it can be a different format from the full name.

Cheers,

A

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 7:35 AM, Andrew Bernard <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Andrew,

If I follow you correctly, then this would work:

Put these vars in directly in your lilypond file:

composer = "Bob Smith"

catalog-number = “001”

In default.ily, create this function:

#(define-markup-command (substitute layout props) ()

   (interpret-markup layout props

     (markup (string-append composer "." catalog-number))

     ))

Then use it in default.ily as follows:

 \on-the-fly #not-part-first-page \line { Klang Büro \substitute }

I am sure you can think of a better function name than I can.

Obviously you can format the substitute string as per your desire.

Andrew