Re: \tocItem within \score block, using header properties

[Joel C. Salomon]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 1:07 PM Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:
> > A \tocItem needs a bottom context to be interpreted,
> > like a Voice, Dynamics, TabVoice or such. In this case,
> > you don't want anything to be printed from it, so you
> > can use this lesser known context type Devnull. Some
> > people do it with a Dynamics as well. Devnull works
> > with everything you might want to take out of the
> > individual parts: \time, \tempo, \mark, etc.

Thanks, that works beautifully.

> > For not repeating the title between \header and \tocItem,
> > you could try this approach:

I realized I'm reusing the same text in so many ways, it was cleaner
to just use a string variable.

--Joel

\version "2.23.80"

titleI = "Piece Title"

upperI = \relative c' { c4 d e f }
lowerI = \relative c {\clef bass f e d c }

scoreI = \score {
  \header {
    piece = \titleI
  }
  \new PianoStaff <<
    \new Devnull { \tocItem \markup \titleI }
    \new Staff = "upper" \upperI
    \new Staff = "lower" \lowerI
  >>
}

midiI = \score {
  \header {
    midititle = \markup{ "Project Name:" \titleI }
  }
  \new PianoStaff <<
    \new Staff = "upper" \upperI
    \new Staff = "lower" \lowerI
  >>
  \midi {}
}

% Print each score as its own file
\book {
  \bookOutputName #(markup->string #{ \markup {"Proj01" \titleI} #})
  \scoreI
}

% Print all scores together as one
\book {
  \markuplist \table-of-contents

  \scoreI
}