Re: Can you add blank pages in Lilypond?

[Panteck]

Thanks for your help, Graham!  That worked perfectly for breaks that occur 
between movements.  For breaks that occur during movements, I came up with a 
snippet that almost does what I want.  The only problem is that I'm not good 
enough with Scheme to get the set bar number line working.  Any Scheme 
experts out there know how to programatically subtract 1 from the current 
bar number?

blankPage =
{
\pageBreak

\once \override Staff.Clef #'transparent = ##t
\once \override Staff.KeySignature #'transparent = ##t
\once \override Score.BarNumber #'transparent = ##t
\override Staff.StaffSymbol #'line-count = 0
\stopStaff s1*1/64 \startStaff
% \set Score.currentBarNumber = #(- (ly:context-property context 
'currentBarNumber) 1)

\once \override TextScript #'extra-offset = #'( -10.0 . -60.0 )
s1*63/64 _\markup { "(this page has been left blank to facilitate page 
turning)" }
\bar " "

\revert Staff.StaffSymbol #'line-count
\stopStaff \startStaff

\pageBreak
}

--Steven

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graham Percival" <address@hidden>
To: "Panteck" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: Can you add blank pages in Lilypond?


> Panteck wrote:
> > I'm using Lilypond 2.8.4 on Windows XP.
> >
> > I'm trying to optimize page turns in a double-sided printing scenario, 
> > and need to add blank pages in the PDF at appropriate locations.  Is it 
> > possible to add a completely blank page (or a page that says "This page 
> > intentionally left blank") in Lilypond?  I've tried multiple \pageBreaks 
> > in a row, and having an empty \score { } \header { breakbefore = ##t } 
> > block, but neither one works.  I searched the web and found lots of 
> > examples of how to create a bunch of empty staffs, but not how to create 
> > just a blank page.  Has anyone else figured out a solution to this 
> > problem?
>
> I'm using lilypond-book, so I \lilypondfile{page-break.ly} this file. To 
> use this inside lilypond, remember that you can just have a \markup on its 
> own (ie no \score).  If you add breakbefore headers to this file and the 
> following movement, you should be able to get it to work.
>
> %%% page-break.ly:
> \version "2.9.6"
> \markup{ \fill-line{ \column {
>   \hspace #1
>   \hspace #1
>   \hspace #1
>   \hspace #1
>   \hspace #1
>   \hspace #1
>   \hspace #1
>   \hspace #1
>   \hspace #1
>   \hspace #1
>   \hspace #1
>   \hspace #1
>   \line { (this page has been left blank to facilitate page turning) }
> }}}