Re: thanks to whomever put this in the LSR...

[Mats Bengtsson]

Patrick McCarty wrote:
> > Is there a way to omit the -1 -2 ... suffix? I would like to specify the  
> > pdf file name in the .ly file.
> >     
>
> Currently, this is hardcoded in the source file scm/lily-library.scm.
> The modification you can make is what number to start at.  You can do
> this by setting `output-count'.
>
> For example, if you say
>
> #(set! output-count 5)
>
> then your files will be named
>
> filename-5.pdf
> filename-6.pdf
> filename-7.pdf
> etc...
>
> That being said, this is an interesting issue.  There *needs* to be an
> automated naming convention by default, or else each successive book
> will overwrite the previous one.
>
> But it would be nice to have an option to override the file-name for
> any arbitrary book.  Something like
>
> \book {
>   \paper {
>     output-file-name = "Blah"
>   }
>   \score {
>     ...
>   }
> }
>
> and this particular book would create "Blah.ps" and "Blah.pdf".
>   

See 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-02/msg00833.html 
and followups for the previous discussion on the topic. As far as I can 
see, an implementation proposal is already available, just to commit.

   /Mats
> -Patrick
>
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