Re: Include files into one score

[Urs Liska]

Am 03.08.2010 21:11, schrieb pwf100220:
> (I'm new)
>
> I wrote three parts of a song separately because they were becoming a little
> overwhelming.  I want to \include the three files into one but I'm doing
> something wrong.  It only includes the last file and uncommenting it only
> includes the 2nd file and so on.  Is it possible to include all three in
> this manner?
>
> \include "File 1"
> \include "File 2"
> \include "File 3"
>
> \score {
>        \new ChoirStaff<<........etc.
>
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> The three files used to stand alone but I commented out the \score
> {.........
> I would prefer not to have a file for each part and include them (as
> suggested by the docs) because I am very comfortable with my current
> organization.
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>    
This very much depends on the real content of your files.
If the files "used to stand alone" and you have some sort of 
"organization" I suspect you will have variables with the same name in 
your included files.
In such a case later definitions just overwrite earlier ones.

To \include a file is the same (for the lilypond parser) as writing the 
contents of the included file directly in the main file.

To make it clear have a look at this example:
if you define the variable "music" twice like this:

music = \relative c' {
  c4 d e f g1
}
music = \relative c {
  c2 a d1
}

The first definition is discarded.
If you \include two files which define a variable "music" it will look 
like the first file isn't included.

The same goes for variables in \header or \paper blocks.

HTH
Urs