Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 68, Issue 76

[Roman Stawski]

> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:50:09 +1200
> From: "Daryna Baikadamova" <address@hidden>
> Subject: a program / command / script turing a lilypond full score
>         into    conductor's score and parts scores automatically
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> Suppose if I typeset a full score (with all instruments that appear in the
> work) in lilypond, there are there any commands / programs / scripts that
> can automatically take the full score lilypond file and create pdf for:
>
> conductor's score - with parts that do not play in a particular line in a
> system automatically removed to save space
>
> parts score - with correct transposition and correctly replace continuous
> rests with a multiple-bar rest, or better, allow specification of length and
> the source (from which instrument the melody comes from) of hint as small
> notes before the instrument actually starts playing.
>
> Are these features already there?  These features would greatly simplify the
> work of the typesetter and leave the mechanical works to lilypond.........
>
> Daryna

It'll never be completely automatic, because the system can't guess which
parts you want to skip/adjust and in which cases. But if you can add the 
extra information into the score in some way, a lot can be done.

In addition to Andrew's remark, this you might also want to have a look
at the snippet http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=493 which was the result 
of a recent discussion to try and do this sort of thing. If it's useful,
but missing some particular feature let me know -- it's something I'm using
for my own work and I'd be happy to take it further (if I'm capable!)

Roman