Re: Creating full score and parts in one PDF

[Richard Shann]

On Sun, 2022-02-13 at 22:17 +0000, Joe Wilkinson wrote:
>  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.

:) that was the helpful message I put in as an enhancement. Without it
when you add a new layout you would get no further feedback. What do I
do now you ask yourself, did it add the layout, you ask yourself. So I
added this message that tells you, rather indirectly (*) how far you
have got with adding your layouts. The crucial question is, does this
popup say you have  n pages after you've added a layout (where n is the
sum of the number of pages in all the layouts added so far)? If not
then the ghostscript program is not being found. If you can experiment
by setting your PATH environment variable to include the location
..\denemo\bin where denemo.exe and lilypond-windows.exe are found and
try again that will be informative. The ghostscript program will be
called gs.exe I suspect.

>  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.
well, it is ghostscript that will generate the PDF so if it is not
adding pages in the first step this would be expected.

Thanks for the testing...

Richard
(*) more helpful would be if the script kept a list of layouts you had
added and read them back out to you at this point, so you could see
where you had got to.

>  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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