Re: LilyPond suggestions

[Mats Bengtsson]

Jesse Engle wrote:
> 4.) There is no way to create an entire page of exercises (a feature 
> that would be incredibly useful for music teachers such as myself) 
> like this:
>
> http://jengle.waferbaby.com/tmp/lp/exercises.png
Actually, you could do this too within LilyPond, since you can use
\markup commands to create several columns and you can embed scores
into a \markup command. Here's a simple example:

\layout{
 ragged-right = ##t
}

\markup{
 \column{
   \score{\relative c'{ c4 d e f g f e d c1 }\layout{}}
   \score{\relative c'{ \key c \minor c4 d es f g f es d c1 }\layout{}}
 }
 \column{
   \score{\relative c'{ \key d \major d4 e fis g a g fis e d1 }\layout{}}
   \score{\relative c'{ \key c \minor d4 e f g a g f e d1 }\layout{}}
 }
}

You can easily fix the numbering, either by specifying in as an instrument
name or using markup commands.
However, as far as I know there is no way to specify a fixed line width 
for the
separate scores without at the same time specifying the same line width 
for the
full document (which doesn't make sense, of course).

To conclude; It is possible within LilyPond but probably much more 
convenient
to use lilypond-book in a two column LaTeX document.

  /Mats