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.
Hi Kieren,
This is helpful, thanks! It seems I may have been overzealous in paring down my minimal example: I actually am breaking the big score file down into scenes/sub-scenes that can then be stitched together later in various combinations. But I'm missing the step of how to get the header at the top of the page to reflect what the current scene is at a given moment, since evenHeaderMarkup and oddHeaderMarkup in the paper block don't seem to be able to pull title/subtitle information from any except the top-level \header block. So now I feel like I'm missing something that's right in front of my face! Can you point me to the missing piece?
Many thanks,
brin