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

[Michael Haynie]

Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking about doing.

So: Which scheme functions do I need to replace to accomplish that?
Are the suggested hooks are documented/supported hooks?

Thanks.

On Nov 27, 2005, at 8:46 AM, Bernard Hurley wrote:

> So it looks like you want to be able to do something like defining a
> LaTeX macro \includesong {songfile} whose effect is something like:
>
> --- do something with header info ----
> \lilypondfile{songfile}
>
> for that you do need lily to write the header info to a file. Actually
> older versions of lily did do this before the days when it produced eps
> files for lilypond-book so I can't see why it couldn't be reintroduced
> as an option. You would also need an extra file so that header info
> could be matched up with snippets. You would probably need to run LaTeX
> several times for it to work, but if you are gereating a TOC you need 
> to
> do that anyway.
>
> On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 00:48 -0500, Michael Haynie wrote:
> > If I didn't have so many files to manage, I might consider that.
> > However, there are enough that the double maintenance would drive me 
> > to
> > distraction.
> >
> > The other problem with that solution is that it doesn't allow for the
> > placement of a song number beside the title -- think of the typical
> > layout of a hymnal.
> >
> > So I really do need to figure out how to get lilypond to leave the
> > titling to LaTeX, somehow.
>
> --
> Bernard Hurley <address@hidden>