Re: Documentation missing for extra \header fields available for customizing PDF metadata

[Simon Albrecht]

Am 08.08.2015 um 11:59 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:
> Am 2015-08-08 um 14:53 schrieb Heikki Tauriainen <address@hidden>:
>
> > While examining the source code on how \header blocks are used to
> > extract information for PDF metadata (to implement the enhancement
> > #4539), I discovered that LilyPond actually supports quite an extensive
> > (optional) mechanism for customizing PDF metadata independently of the
> > information usually specified in the fields (title, subtitle, composer
> > etc.) of a \header block, through the use of extra \header fields.
> > However, I can't find any mention of this customization mechanism, nor
> > examples of using any of the extra fields, in any of the current
> > (v2.19.24) manuals.
> There’s also a list of header fields that are used by the Mutopia project, see 
> http://www.mutopiaproject.org/contribute.html#update
That’s a Mutopia policy and not a feature of Lilypond.
> An updated documentation could point at that, too.
There is a section explaining custom header fields, referenced by 
\fromproperty. We might extend this section to also speak about 
processing through external applications, as in building Mutopia.

Yours, Simon