Re: The best way to create a songbook?

[René Brandenburger]

Hi,

i'm using LaTeX with lilypond-book and am quite happy with it, but you
should go with a recent version of lilypond, especially if you're on
windows, as i had a lot of trouble with the 2.8.x series. I chose to go
with LaTeX and lilypond-book, because i wanted to add pictures and
background graphics to my songbook. 

I keep each song in an own .ly file and include them with
\lilypondfile[staffsize=20]{song.ly}

The numbers to the songs can be set with LaTeX counters

regards
rene

Am Mittwoch, den 14.02.2007, 20:51 +0100 schrieb Dominic Neumann:
> Hi,
> 
> I´m quite new to lilypond but I´m already fascinated. I want to layout
> a whole songbook with about 200 songs. Until now I worked with
> Sibelius and now I´m thinking of typesetting that songbook with
> lilypond. But there are some things to consider and I hope you can
> help me a bit: 
> 
> 1) Should I only work with lilypond or better mit LaTeX and
> lilypond-book (I already work with LaTeX)? There are not many texts to
> add to the songbook.
> I want to have a song number next to each song (on the top outer
> corner of the page). 
> 
> 2) If I do it without LaTeX, only using lilypond: I think it would be
> a good way to have one file for each song in the songbook. But there
> are other problems: The identifiers I use for verselyrics or harmonies
> have to be unique project-wide, don´t they? 
> In that case I could try to do it without identifiers - that wouldn´t
> be a big problem.
> 
> At first, these are my question - I think, later there´ll be more ...
> 
> Thanks
> 
> tabster
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