Re: conditional formatting

[Vicente Solsona]

On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 01:03:30 +0200, Marten Visser <address@hidden>  
wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> Typesetting my masterpiece :D, I ran into the following problem:
> I have a piece for piccolo and guitar. If I typeset the music for  
> guitar, I'd like to have a tablature staff in addition to the notes, but  
> If I typset for piccolo, I'd like to omit the tablature. Since the music  
> is the same in either case, I prefer to have one file where I can make a  
> definition at the very beginning of the document like

I think you can do that with tags:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Different-editions-from-one-source

scroll down to "Using tags".

greetings,

Vicente