Re: Book

[Mark Probert]

Carlos wrote:
> 
> How one goes about setting up a book:
> 
> 1. Files are independent  would like to use include.
> 2. I want their title and the author to show. 
> 3. Copyright in the bottoms. 
> 
I recently did this exact thing for a jazz realbook. 

My setup is:

 [1] All the music goes into tune.ily files, for example 
the tune "Impressions" would be in the "impressions.ily"
file. There are two sections to this file: one where the
the music is created; and the other for control info, basically
the header, which contains title, composer, etc. 

So something like:

impressions-tune = {
  <<
    \new ChordNames \harmony
    \new Staff      \melody
  >>
}

impressions-hdr = \header {
    title = "Impressions"
    composer = "John Coltrane"
    subtitle = \markup { \fontsize #-2 { "Aebersold 54.02" }}
    poet = \markup { \fontsize #-2 { "5 choruses" }}
    tagline = #awpTag
}

 [3] Copyright is handled by using another include with the
tagline set to:

 awpTag = \markup {
  \teeny { ancient wing press music &copyright; 2021}
 }

The main book is then made from a separate file--Music.ly, let's 
say--that basically looks like this:

---

\version "2.20"
#(set-global-staff-size 30) % change the staff size here

%%% -----
%%% tunes
%%% -----
\include "impressions.ily"

impressions = \bookpart {
    \tocItem \markup "Impressions"
    \impressions-hdr
    \score {
      \impressions-tune 
      \layout {
        indent = 0\cm
      }
    }
  }

%% -----
%% Construct the book
%%
\header { tagline = ##f }
\paper {
  tocTitleMarkup = \markup \huge \column {
    \fill-line { \null "Table of Contents" \key \null }
    \null
  }
  tocItemMarkup = \tocItemWithDotsMarkup
}

\markuplist \table-of-contents
\pageBreak

\impressions

---

Each tune gets its own \bookpart and an ToC entry in a standard form. 
Keep adding until done. I automate the lot with a Rakefile to create a 
PDF (a set acutally, but that is another story), and can adjust the 
size of individual pages to fit (I need them to sit well on 1 or 2 
pages, maybe not what you need, but simply adjust the staff-size in the 
bookpart).

Hope this helps

 .. mark.