Re: Accessibility of score/bookpart header variables in headerMarkup

[Ralph Palmer]

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Leah Velleman <address@hidden>
wrote:

> The manual
> (http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/
> creating-titles-headers-and-footers#titles-explained) says
> that evenHeaderMarkup and other header/footer variables...
>
> > can only access text fields from top-level \header blocks
> > (which apply to all scores in the book)
>
> In fact, this is not true. they can also access text fields
> from \header blocks at levels as low as bookpart, as the
> following MWE shows:
>
> \version "2.19"
> \paper {
>   oddHeaderMarkup = \markup { \fromproperty #'header:title }
>   evenHeaderMarkup = \markup { \fromproperty #'header:title }
>   scoreTitleMarkup = \markup { }
>   bookTitleMarkup = \markup { }
> }
>
> \book {
>   \bookpart {
>     \header { title = "foo bar baz" }
>     \score {
>       \new Staff {  c d e f g a b c }
>      }
>   }
> }


Greetings, Leah - This has been submitted as Issue 4412 :
https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4412
Ralph