Re: Creating a book of pieces?

[Alasdair McAndrew]

Thank you very much.  I already use multiple 
score blocks for different movements; each movement has its own heading, 
time signature etc.  So I get a single file from multiple score 
blocks.  But these multiple blocks form suites, and I want the book to 
refer to the suites, rather than their individual 
movements.

That is, the contents page might have

Suite 1 ...    3

Suite 2 ...    14

and so on for the pages for each suite.  But Suite 1 itself (and all the others) is built from the score blocks: Overture, Allemande, Bourree, Menuet, Gavotte, Gigue  (for example).  Maybe LaTeX will in fact be my best bet?

cheers,

Alasdair

On Saturday 26 February 2022 11:37:12 (+11:00), Valentin Petzel wrote:

Hello Alasdair,

Yes, there is. Placing multiple \score{...} blocks in one file will produce one pdf. Using \book{..} we can split this into multiple pdfs produced from one file.

Title pages can be designed using \markup{...}, but it is also viable to create the title page in some other application and join the pdfs (this might be nescessary if you want to design very intricate pdfs).

Doing a ToC is possible as well, see here:

https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/table-of-contents

Cheers,

Valentin

Am Freitag, 25. Februar 2022, 22:49:22 CET schrieb Alasdair McAndrew:

> Hello,

> Over the past few weeks I have been transcribing a set of 18th century

> suites into Lilypond (they look very nice, too), and now I'd like to

> collect them into one "book"; that is, a single PDF file with title page,

> table of contents etc.

>

> Can Lilypond do this, or do I need to invoke some other software?  I can

> use LaTeX happily enough - I've been using it professionally for decades.

> (However, getting page numbers correct in LaTeX from included PDF files has

> a few pitfalls.)  Is there a "standard" way of collecting a whole lot of

> Lilypond pieces into one nice product?

>

> Thanks very much,

> Alasdair

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