Re: coding question about include-d tweak/function files

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Stefano,

> Is it not viable to load them once one your "main" file instead of on every 
> score that requires one of their functions? Or is it the case that you want 
> to be able to compile each song in the songbook independently, meaning you 
> need to include the "tweaks" in each score, which then causes great 
> inefficiencies when you include them all?

The latter. I have one file of music variable definitions for each song, e.g.,

    /MyProject/Song1_notes.ily
    /MyProject/Song2_notes.ily
    etc.

[Note: All naming is "pseudocode" here, for clarity.] Then I have multiple 
scores built using one or more of those music definition files, such as

   /MyProject/PianoConductor_letter.ly
   /MyProject/PianoVocal_letter.ly
   /MyProject/ChorusVocal_letter.ly
   /MyProject/FullScore_letter.ly
   /MyProject/Song1_standalone_letter.ly
   etc.

I \include each *_notes.ily file into each main "score" (*_letter.ly) file as 
required. I suppose I *could* save all the tweak \include files for the score 
file… But then I'd have to keep track [in my brain, I guess?] of which tweak 
files were needed for each song, and to my mind that's a recipe for disaster 
(or at least frustration and inefficiency).

Hope that makes it clearer.  =)

Thanks,
Kieren.
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