RE: Producing a title page

[Peter Gentry]

>
>Message: 3
>Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:48:42 +0000
>From: David Sumbler <address@hidden>
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: Producing a title page
>Message-ID: <address@hidden>
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>
>Having now got LilyPond 2.18.0 set up on my two machines, 
>thanks to all the help from the list, I have now started 
>trying to adjust the output of the pieces I have so far produced.
>
>I have used \header blocks for title, composer etc., and these 
>are working as I would wish.
>
>However, I should like to produce a separate title page which 
>precedes the music, but everything I have tried so far doesn't 
>work.  Usually I either get additional text added to the first 
>page of music, or I get no title above the music itself.
>
>Of course, I could easily create a title page in LibreOffice 
>or similar, but as LilyPond seems to have sufficient markup 
>capabilities to do anything I am likely to want on a title 
>page, it seems a shame not to keep the whole thing in the one place.
>
>What I would like to do is to have some items (e.g. title, 
>composer) appearing on page 1, and some of the same ones 
>appearing above the music which starts on page 2 (or perhaps 
>page 3 in some cases).  I imagine it is possible to set things 
>up so that the data only appears once in the file - e.g. 
>"Title" appears once in the .ly file, but appears both on the 
>title page (page 1) and on the first page of music.
>
>Here is an abbreviated example of one of my efforts:
>
>
>\version "2.18.0"
>
>\book {
>    \paper {
>       indent = 0\mm
>       scoreTitleMarkup = \markup {
>           \fill-line {
>               \null
>               \fontsize #3 \bold \fromproperty #'header:piece
>               \null
>           }
>       }
>       first-page-number = #2
>    }
>
>    \header {
>       title       = "Partita"
>       subtitle    = "for solo marimba"
>    }
>
>    \score {
>       { c'1 c' }
>       \header { piece = "I.  Allemande" }
>       \layout { }
>    }
>    \pageBreak
>
>    \score {
>       { d'1 d' }
>       \header { piece = "II.  Courante" }
>       \layout { }
>    }
>}
>
>
>How should I alter this to get a title page showing "Partita" 
>and "for solo marimba" on a title page preceding the music pages?
>
>David
How about this as a possibility:

% Mozart Quartet K464 Line 1 Bb Clarinet pitch         \
% File K464_Bb_L1.ly                                              \
% ----------------------------------------------------------
\version "2.16.0"
#(set-global-staff-size 20)

%--------------------------------------------------------------------
% variables for later use to avoid repititions
%---------------------------------------------------------------------
date = #(strftime "%d-%m-%Y" (localtime (current-time)))
xtitle = "String Quartet K464"
xsubtitle = "transposed for flute, clarinet, alto flute, and bass clarinet"
xChristian = "Wolfgang Amadeus"
xSurname = "Mozart"
xdates = "(1756-1791)"
xpart = "Clarinet 1"
xinstrument = "Clt 1"
xmidiInstrument = "clarinet"
xgraphic="./mozza2.eps" 
xstamp = \markup{\concat { "Engraved "  \bold \date " with "  \with-url 
#"http://lilypond.org/"; "LilyPond " \simple
#(lilypond-version) " (http://lilypond.org/)" }  }

%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% variable to control minimum ledger space after pageturn shrinkage 
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ledgers =  \override Staff.LedgerLineSpanner #'minimum-length-fraction = #0.4
                

% ------------------------------------------------------------------------
% header for the first page only
%--------------------------------------------------------------------------
\header {
  mycustomtext= \markup  {
      \fill-line {
          \column {
             \center-align {
                                    \xstamp 
                                    " "
                                    \fontsize #-1 "Original 
IMSLP64141-PMLP05225-Mozart_Werke_Breitkopf_Serie_14_KV464"
                                    \fontsize #-1 "Clarinet Quartet Copyright @ 
2002 by Oliver Seeley and assigned to the public
domain" }
                    }            
                } 
            }
        }
% -----------------------------------------------------------
% define staffclarinet
% -----------------------------------------------------------

staffinstrument = \new Staff {
        \set Staff.instrumentName = \xinstrument
        \set Staff.midiInstrument = \xmidiInstrument
}

% -----------------------------------------------------------
% set the paper layout for binding
% footer has title and page number
% -----------------------------------------------------------
\paper {
                two-sided = ##t
                top-margin = 10\mm
                bottom-margin = 10\mm    
                inner-margin = 20 \mm
                outer-margin = 15 \mm
                binding-offset = 5 \mm
                first-page-number = #1
                blank-after-score-page-force = #10
                page-breaking = #ly:page-turn-breaking   
                ragged-bottom = ##t 
                indent = 0\mm
                print-page-number = ##t
                print-first-page-number = ##f
                oddHeaderMarkup = \markup \null
                evenHeaderMarkup = \markup \null
                oddFooterMarkup = \markup {
                                                 \fill-line {
                                                   \null \fontsize #2  
\fromproperty #'header:mycustomtext 
                                                      \on-the-fly 
#print-page-number-check-first
                                                   \fontsize #2  \fromproperty 
#'page:page-number-string
                                                              } % end of fill 
line

                                                          } % end of markup 
block
                evenFooterMarkup = \oddFooterMarkup
         } % end of paper block

% -----------------------------------------------------------
% typeset the music in a book                                   
% use bookpart for individual movements      
% -----------------------------------------------------------

\book {

% -----------------------------------------------------------
% Frontispiece block - note use of variables
% -----------------------------------------------------------
\markuplist {
        \justified-lines {
             \hspace #8
        {\fontsize #8  \xChristian \fontsize #8 \xSurname } }
  }

\markuplist {
        \justified-lines {
            \vspace #1 
             \hspace #26
        {\fontsize #6  \xdates} }
  }
\markuplist { 
          \justified-lines {
            \vspace #1 
            \hspace #12
            {\fontsize #12  \xtitle } }
 }

\markuplist {
       \justified-lines { 
         \vspace #2 
         \hspace #18 
          {\fontsize #4 \xsubtitle} }
}


\markup {
        \vspace #6
        \hspace #20
        \general-align #Y #DOWN {\epsfile #Y #40 #"./mozza2.eps" }              
                
        }  

\markuplist {
       \justified-lines { 
         \vspace #2 
         \hspace #32 
          {\fontsize #8 \xpart} }
}

  
\markuplist {  
         \wordwrap-lines {             
               \vspace #2
               { Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus 
Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (27 January 1756 - 5
December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. 
He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as
pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is 
among the most enduringly popular of classical
composers.
 
Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. 
Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from
the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, he was engaged as 
a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and
travelled in search of a better position, always composing abundantly. While 
visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his
Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but 
little financial security. During his final years in
Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, 
and portions of the Requiem, which was largely
unfinished at the time of his death. 
 
Mozart learned voraciously from others, and developed a brilliance and maturity 
of style that encompassed the light and graceful
along with the dark and passionate. His influence on subsequent Western art 
music is profound. Beethoven composed his own early
works in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote that posterity will not 
see such a talent again in 100 years.
  } 
    }      
}

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