Re: variables in \book { }

[David Kastrup]

Graham King <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 19:15 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> <snip>
>
>> 
>> However, your original posting stated:
>> 
>> > (Alternatively, if there's a way to make book-titling.ily do a
>> > ragged-last-bottom for each piece, that would save even more work).
>> 
>> Have you actually tried
>> 
>> \layout {
>>   ragged-last-bottom = ##t
>> }
>> 
>> before anything else?  That should be taken as starting point for all
>> following \layout blocks.
>> 
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> I can't pretend to have a very firm grasp of scoping in lilypond, but I
> have now (re-)tried by putting this \layout block in various places,
> including before the \include for each piece.  I've also tried inserting
> it in Nicolas Sceaux's example at the bottom of the book-titling.ily
> code (snippet 368).  All without success, alas.

"before anything else" means before anything else.  Namely first.
Particularly before loading book-titling.ily.

-- 
David Kastrup