Re: "Hide" the tagline

[David Kastrup]

Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 27.02.2017 um 13:08 schrieb Simon Albrecht:
>> Am 27.02.2017 um 12:42 schrieb Urs Liska:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm looking for a way to "externally" hide the tagline, i.e. by either
>>> making it transparent or colouring it white.
>>>
>>> The "problem" is that I don't want to do it in the tagline markup
>>> definition itself but by injecting some code when invoking LilyPond. The
>>> intention is to write a wrapper script that hides the tagline of an
>>> arbitrary given score without affecting the layout.
>>
>> Maybe you can invoke something like
>> #(define hide-tagline #t)
>> through the -e command line option,
>> write a markup command transparent-cond which applies the \transparent
>> command to its argument depending on the value of ̀hide-tagline'
>> and use that to wrap the tagline markup in bookTitleMarkup.
>>
>
> I think that's too intrusive and imposes too many assumptions about the
> input file. What I need is a solution to take an arbitrary input file
> and compile it without a tagline.
>
> It's ok to insert something in the input file but it should be, well,
> non-intrusive.

I see the option

   -dinclude-settings=$LILYPOND_GIT/scripts/auxiliar/NoTagline.ly

in scripts/auxiliar/make-regtest-pngs.sh

-- 
David Kastrup