Re: Changing Header Mid-Score

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Brin,

> I am working on an opera and would like to use text in the header to help the 
> performers keep track of where they are in the score. So ideally, the header 
> on each page should say something like "Title of Opera: Act I, scene ii", 
> with the scene reflecting whatever the current scene is. Since there aren't 
> musical stops between the scenes, I would like the scenes to flow into one 
> another in the same \score block (so that a scene might start in the middle 
> of a line of music, say), which is pretty standard from the opera scores and 
> parts I'm used to.

Having engraved many of my own musicals, operas, and the like, I can say that 
breaking things into scenes — or even smaller chunks — is really useful, and 
gives you ultimate flexibility: you can break the scene wherever you want 
(e.g., the middle of a line of music), keeping each “building block” separate, 
and then “stitch them together” in any number of score formats/outputs.

At that point, having the header reflect the exact “building block” in question 
is really simple.

Just my 2¢ (from twenty years of Lilypond-ing my music dramas) — hope it’s 
helpful!
Kieren.