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 :(