Re: Creating full score and parts in one PDF

[Richard Shann]

On Sun, 2022-02-13 at 17:06 +0000, Joe Wilkinson wrote:
>  Sorry, Richard
>  I cannot find it under File >> Export,
Hmm, I think this is the "keep my shortcuts..." bug. If you right click
on one of the menu items in that menu and choose "More Commands" you
should see ExportBook.xml and opening that you should install it in
your custom menu system. Please let me know if that works as it is
difficult for me to test.

Richard


>  See below from this afternoon's download.
>  Joe
>  
>  
> On 12/02/2022 11:39, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-02-11 at 19:02 +0000, joeandangela@btinternet.com wrote:
>  
> > I'll download tomorrow and try 
> It's in today's build at:
> 
> Command: Export Book of Layouts
> Allows the creation of a single PDF containing a variety of layouts
> (e.g. Full Score and individual parts). The layouts can have
> different
> font sizes etc, unlike the Append option in the Print View.
> Location: Main Menu ▶ File ▶ Export As
> Internal Name: ExportBook
> 
> I have in mind a few tweaks to make the construction of the book more
> transparent, but I think it is good to go.
> With this command I think you could construct a book comprising
> scores
> from different Denemo files... (not tested).
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
>  
> > Joe
> > 
> > On 11 Feb 2022 16:54, Richard Shann <richard@rshann.plus.com>
> > wrote:
> >  
> > > On Fri, 2022-02-11 at 09:49 +0000, Joe Wilkinson wrote:
> > >  
> > > > Hi Richard,
> > > > I've just tried it out on a 128 measure piece.
> > > > It works fine though, as you say, it would be nice if 
> > > >  * it could print out different parts with different score
> > > > sizes
> > > > (could be difficult)
> > > >  * if the score size chosen wasn't always the last one
> > > >  * if the individual parts could start on a new page, and
> > > >  * if the version didn't get printed out for each part, in a
> > > > stack!
> > > All of these (except perhaps the last) are not possible at
> > > present
> > > with
> > > LilyPond (*) so I have created a way to do this from Denemo.
> > > Attached is a Scheme script which allows you to create a "Book"
> > > comprizing various layouts which the command will combine
> > > together
> > > as a
> > > final PDF. You have to invoke the command once for each layout
> > > you
> > > want
> > > to include in the book.
> > > It is quite clunky but I think it is working - if you can test it
> > > out
> > > on Windows that would be helpful.
> > > 
> > > Richard
> > > (*) I asked on the LilyPond mailing list 
> > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2022-02/msg00247.html
> > > 
> > > and it is a deep-rooted problem :(
> > > 
> 
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