Re: lilypond-book "ignores" system-count?

[Dmytro O. Redchuk]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:07:49AM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Now I realize what you really ask about. You are certainly right that
> lilypond-book does not accept options such as
> \begin[system-count=10]{lilypond}
> .
> \end{lilypond}
> 
> or
> \lilypondfile[system-count=10]{...}
> 
> However, you can easily specify the system-count inside your own LilyPond
> code, for example:
> \begin{lilypond}
>  \paper{system-count = 8}
>  \score{ \repeat unfold 100 c' }
> \end{lilypond}
No, it's not a case, too. Now the smallest score spans over four pages, so
i should use \lilypondfile[...]{...}

> When first answering your question, I thought that this is what you tried
> and what didn't work (but it clearly does, now that I try it).
No, i have tried to specify system-count inside "\paper" block in
myscore.ly file, but almost any option there is ignored by lilypond-book.


> If you want to use \lilypondfile and don't want to specify system-count 
> within that file,
Yes, i do want to specify system-count within lilypond source file!-)
But that didn't work (2.10.20, windows and linux binary versions).

> then you could use a trick like
> \begin{lilypond}
>  \paper{ system-count = 10 }
>  \include{myfile.ly}
> \end{lilypond}
Great!!!

That works, really. Like this:

\begin{lilypond}
  \paper { system-count = #12 }
  \include "myfile.ly"
\end{lilypond}


Great, that's much better. Than patching lilypond-book :-D

So, i was definitely doing "bad things" -- thank's a lot for your help :-)


> The only main disadvantage of this solution is that lilypond-book will not
> automatically discover if you have made any changes to the .ly file, so you
> have to manually clean the generated files to make sure that lilypond-book
> processes the .ly file again and doesn't use an old version.
GNU make will help, i hope :-)

> 
>   /Mats
> 
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