Re: Creating a book of pieces?

[Mark Probert]

Hi.

LP can do this quite easily. The "secret sauce" is the \bookpart 
section (check out the manual for more). 

My basic structure is to have a main .ly file (the "book") which then 
include the parts (your suites) as .ily files, each of which have 
something like this at the bottom:

\bookpart {
  \header {
    title = #title
    composer = #composer
  }
  \SuiteOne
}

The title page is simply another .ily called "titlepage.ily" which you 
construct to look as you want.

HTH 

 .. m.

You wrote:
> Hello,
> Over the past few weeks I have been transcribing a set of 18th 
> century suites into Lilypond (they look very nice, too), and now I'd 
> like to collect them into one "book"; that is, a single PDF file with 
> title page, table of contents etc.
> 
> Can Lilypond do this, or do I need to invoke some other software?  I 
> can use LaTeX happily enough - I've been using it professionally for 
> decades.  (However, getting page numbers correct in LaTeX from 
> included PDF files has a few pitfalls.)  Is there a "standard" way of 
> collecting a whole lot of Lilypond pieces into one nice product?
> 
> Thanks very much,
> Alasdair
>   -- 
> https://numbersandshapes.net
>