Re: variables in \book { }

[Graham King]

On Wed, 2016-02-17 at 00:20 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> 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.
I've tried it at the top of the master file that I compile to create the PDF containing all the pieces:
>       \version "2.19.32"
>       #(ly:set-option 'point-and-click #f)
>       \layout {
>        ragged-last-bottom = ##t
>      }
The last page of each piece is still as if ragged-last-bottom were ##f.  The final piece might be affected but I can't tell because it fills the last page with systems anyway.

Thanks for the clarification, but I'm thinking we're flogging a dead horse in trying to get book-titling.ily to do this.