Re: Extending \lilypondfile to support separate handling of header fields for use by LaTeX et.al.

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Bernard Hurley wrote:
> > I'm still pretty happy with the mechanism this represents, but for two 
> > things.
> >
> > * -Hall to extract every header would be would be tremendously useful. 
> > Otherwise, I have to extract all of the headers individually, and 
> > that's *really* tedious.
>
>
> If you have a look at my new veraion of "lilypond-macros" you will see
> it extracts all headers from the .ly files.  It does this by examining
> the .ly file directly. The headers don't have to be the usual lilypond
> ones.

Our advice is usually to let Lily do the work of looking at .ly files. 
It should be relatively easy to make it extract all of the headers. See

(define-public (output-scopes scopes fields basename)

in backend-library.scm

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