Re: Common Headings in Large Pieces

[Mats Bengtsson]

Cc: bug-lilypond; feature request included below!

If you have one \header{...} block at the top level of the file
and another one included withing \score{...}, it seems that LilyPond
combines the settings from both these header blocks. This may be a
solution to your problems, since you could simply have a file with
\header{
title = "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
composer = "Who knows?"
...
}
that you include in all your .ly files and then you add the
additional information in the
\score{
  ...
  \header{
    instrument = "trombone"
  }
}

I think it would be a nice feature if it was possible to have several
\header blocks also at the top level of a file where each new header
block only added to the existing settings (if the same field is
defined in several blocks, the latest one should hold, preferably with
a warning print out).

   /Mats

Cameron Horsburgh wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Thanks to the authors for a great piece of software! I'm actually able
> to hold my head up when I take my arrangements to band...!
>
> There is one thing that I would love to be able to do. The band I
> arrange for has around 15 different parts. I have two separate files for
> each instrument, for example trombone.ly (which is a top level file) and
> trombone.notes (which holds the \notes block). I also have a score.ly
> file which calls all the separate \notes blocks to produce a score. (The
> ability to do this is very nice and far more intuitive than anything
> else I've used.)
>
> This works very well, but I get frustrated managing the \header block in
> each .ly file. I can produce the \header block with simple cutting and
> pasting, but any subsequent changes are annoying, especially if they're
> only experimental.
>
> I tried to get around this by creating another file called
> 'commonheadings.' This consisted of a definition:
>
> commonheader = 
> title = "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
> composer = "Who knows?"
>
> and so on. I called the file in an \include statement and then tried
>
> \header {
> commonheader
> instrument = "trombone"
> }
>
> but I got the error 
>
> syntax error, unexpected '=':
>         title
>               = "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
>
>
> I also tried defining the commonheader block as a header block, but this
> wasn't allowed either.
>
> Is there any way to achieve this? FYI, I'm using the current Debian
> version of 2.0.1.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Cameron
>
>
>
>
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