Re: Extracting header fields for use by e.g. LaTeX?

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "MH" == Michael Haynie <address@hidden> writes:


    MH> If I didn't have so many files to manage, I might consider that.  
    MH> However, there are enough that the double maintenance would drive me to 
    MH> distraction.

    MH> The other problem with that solution is that it doesn't allow for the 
    MH> placement of a song number beside the title -- think of the typical 
    MH> layout of a hymnal.

    MH> So I really do need to figure out how to get lilypond to leave the 
    MH> titling to LaTeX, somehow.

I have the same problem, but I do basically what Bernard suggested,
and write the .lytex file with a script that extracts the header
fields from the lilypond (or, in my case, the ABC file that's the
input for abc2ly).

    MH> On Nov 26, 2005, at 9:16 PM, Bernard Hurley wrote:

    >> If you are using lilypond-book it is probably easier to forget about
    >> header fields and do something like:
    >> 
    >> \section{Prelude}
    >> --- some other text ----
    >> \lilypondfile[indent=1.2\cm]{prelude.ly}
    >> 
    >> in your lytex file. You can then easily generate a TOC.

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