Re: Creating multi-score books

[Urs Liska]

(Please always reply-to-all)


Am 16.02.2017 um 07:39 schrieb Don Gingrich:
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 07:32:09 you wrote:
>> Am 16. Februar 2017 07:02:10 MEZ schrieb Don Gingrich 
> <address@hidden>:
>>> I've got a basic problem, and I'm not having much
>>> joy with the documentation.
>>>
>>> Over the past few years I've created several scores
>>> for folk songs.
>>>
>>> Now, I'm going to be doing a workshop discussing
>>> their origins.
>>>
>>> What I'd like to create is:
>>>
>>> <title page in TeX>
>>>
>>> <text page discussing song 1 in TeX>
>>>
>>> <score of song one in ly >
>>>
>>> <text page discussing song 2 in TeX>
>>>
>>> <score of song 2 in ly >
>>>
>>> and so on
>>>
>>> I'm probably more familiar with LaTeX than
>>> LilyPond, so I'd really prefer to do the cover
>>> page and discussion in TeX and the scores
>>> in LilyPond.
>> If I don't misunderstand you I would compile the songs individually and
>> include them using \includepdf.
> Hmmm I hadn't looked at it that way, but
> it may be the simplest way to get the job done.
>
> But, in the long run I would like to be able to
> build multi-page books of LilyPond scores,
> though this seems to be a difficult task.
>
> But to get it together for the upcoming  workshop
> keeping it simple is likely a good idea.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Don
>
>

I'm not totally sure about that. Keeping separate things separate like
this feels pretty clean to me.
Combine that with a good makefile, and you have both, perfect
integration plus the option of standalone scores.

Urs