Re: Creating full score and parts in one PDF

[Joe Wilkinson]

    Hi Richard,
    I just downloaded denemo and tried with a simple file of 1 movement
    & 4 staffs.
    It was a bit clunky, as you say, but probably liveable with. BUT
    Firstly every time you ass a page I get the window below which has
    an unhelpful message.
    And secondly (worse) when I asked it to create the pdf it gave me a
    default name which I changed and then asked me for a location. I
    tried the desktop and pressed Close but no file appeared on the
    desktop. I tried this 3 times in 3 locations and it vanished each
    time.
    Joe

On 12/02/2022 16:31, Richard Shann wrote:

> On Sat, 2022-02-12 at 14:24 +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
> > On Sat, 2022-02-12 at 11:39 +0000, 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).
> > >         
> > I've tested this now and it works, indeed you can create a title page
> > for your book by creating a Denemo score that just has LilyPond
> > markup
> > (*) and no actual music and make that the first "layout" in your
> > book,
> > then load the score and typeset various layouts adding them to your
> > book.
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > (*) I'm not sure what the best way to do this might be - what I did
> > was
> > to use the "Text after Movement" on a blank score and then delete the
> > only staff in the movement so that all that was left was the text.
> >       
> I've included a template for a book title page - it can be opened and
> the text altered and then included as the first page in a Denemo Book.
> You would then load the actual score and put the various layouts into
> the book before finally generating the PDF.
> I've attached the template here for those who don't want to wait until
> tomorrow. There is a prize of 10 Gold Denemo Stars to the person who
> crafts the best looking title page template to replace my quick and
> whimiscal effort. The LilyPond documentation
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/text-markup-commands
>  will explain how to draw boxes around text etc etc...
>
> Richard
>
>
> > > 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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