Re: Need help creating Scheme functions to automate includes of many scores in a project

[Vaughan McAlley]

On 26 June 2018 at 05:19, Nah <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have a project with 100+ scores, each in their own file. I tried to create
> a Scheme function to \include each of them. After searching the archive, I
> got the general idea of why my solution isn't working. However, I didn't
> find something like a snippet that I could coax into what I want. I have
> programming experience in C, Python, etc., but I'm still pretty clueless
> with Scheme.
>
> What I want is a function that does something like:
> foreach fname #{ \include #fname #}
>
> In Python, I would just read all the filenames in the directory, sort them,
> then run the foreach. Can I do something like that in Scheme? And how do I
> put the result in a form that will work with \include?
>
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You could modify your lilypond command to run a Python script to
create a dynamic file like allIncludes.ly:

\include "Piece01.ly"
\include "Piece02.ly"
...

This is pretty easy in Frescobaldi, or you could do it with Make for a
little bit of respectability…

Vaughan