Re: lilypond-book "ignores" system-count?

[Mats Bengtsson]

Now I realize what you really ask about. You are certainly right that
lilypond-book does not accept options such as
\begin[system-count=10]{lilypond}
...
\end{lilypond}

or
\lilypondfile[system-count=10]{...}

However, you can easily specify the system-count inside your own LilyPond
code, for example:
\begin{lilypond}
 \paper{system-count = 8}
 \score{ \repeat unfold 100 c' }
\end{lilypond}

When first answering your question, I thought that this is what you tried
and what didn't work (but it clearly does, now that I try it).

If you want to use \lilypondfile and don't want to specify system-count 
within
that file, then you could use a trick like
\begin{lilypond}
 \paper{ system-count = 10 }
 \include{myfile.ly}
\end{lilypond}

The only main disadvantage of this solution is that lilypond-book will not
automatically discover if you have made any changes to the .ly file, so you
have to manually clean the generated files to make sure that lilypond-book
processes the .ly file again and doesn't use an old version.

  /Mats

Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote:
> Hmm, i did not receive my own post...
>
> Anyway, since i need to have lilypond-book working with system-count
> parameter, i modified a lilypond-book script (diff see below).
>
> So, a question to developers.
>
> In the same way it's possible, of course, add another parameters, which
> could be present in "paper" section.
>
> But which is the right way to do this?
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> --- lilypond-book.original      2007-03-19 17:03:47 +0200
> +++ lilypond-book       2007-03-19 17:53:29 +0200
> @@ -234,6 +234,7 @@
>  FONTLOAD = 'fontload'
>  FILENAME = 'filename'
>  ALT = 'alt'
> +SYSTEM_COUNT = 'system-count'
>  
>  
>  # NOTIME has no opposite so it isn't part of this dictionary.
> @@ -518,7 +519,8 @@
>      VERBATIM,
>      FONTLOAD,
>      FILENAME,
> -    ALT
> +    ALT,
> +    SYSTEM_COUNT
>  ]
>  
>  ly_options = {
> @@ -1064,6 +1066,10 @@
>          elif relative > 0:
>              relative_quotes += "'" * relative
>  
> +        # UURGS...
> +        if SYSTEM_COUNT in override.keys():
> +            compose_dict[PAPER].append ('system-count = #%(system-count)s')
> +
>          paper_string = string.join (compose_dict[PAPER],
>                        '\n  ') % override
>          layout_string = string.join (compose_dict[LAYOUT],
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 03:18:26PM +0200, Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote:
>   
> > Hello,
> >
> >     I couldn't create pdf page with lilypond-book with system-count
> >     as requested in lilypond source. So, when i set
> >     system-count = #12
> >     and make it with lilypond -- all is well, but processing with
> >     lilypond-book gives me (significantly,) less system-count.
> >
> >     Can anyone help me, please?
> >     
>
>   

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