Re: lilypond-book macros/variables

[Mats Bengtsson]

In any text editor, it's trivial to automatically replace all occurences of
something like
\lilystart
by
\begin[staffsize=12]{lilypond}
\include "bookstyle.ly <http://bookstyle.ly>"
or whatever, so I have personally not seen any need for this feature.
Of course it's very clever to do what you did, namely to include a
separate .ly file that contains all the necessary settings.

If you have a large number of short snippets, I see that your solution 
might be
convenient. Did you consider using a standard preprocessor like CPP or M4
(search the mailing list archives for "preprocessor" for some related 
discussions
on the use of preprocessors in pure .ly files)?

  /Mats

v!ictor address@hidden wrote:
> hello lilyponders,
>
> I've been using lilypond-book for the first time. love it!
>
> There's one thing that I'd like to have though. I'd love to be able to 
> define macros in a similar way as in latex. Is this possible?
>
> From what I've read in the documentation, lilypond-book only knows to 
> look for \begin{lilypond} and \lilypond{ }, so no macros can be 
> defined *for lilypond-book* inside the latex file. If you try to do 
> this, lilypond-book ignores them and then latex tries to interpret 
> them and fails.
>
> So i wrote a little parser that looks for a lilypond delimiter, 
> specifically \lily{ [music] } and replaces that for whatever i define 
> in my parser, for example
>
> \begin[staffsize=12]{lilypond}
> \include "bookstyle.ly <http://bookstyle.ly>"
> [music]
> \end{lilypond}
>
> Now compiling a lilypond-book becomes a three step process:
> 1. parse book.tex to find \lily{ } and replace with arbitrary lilypond 
> stuff
> 2. run lilypond-book on book.tex
> 3. run latex on book.tex
>
> So if there is no way of doing this in lilypond-book, would anyone 
> else be interested in integrating something like this in the core 
> lilypond-book code? would it be useful for others?
>
> best,
>
> victor
>
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