Hi Graham,
I'm not sure if it's of great help or even applicable to your problem at
hand, but I have just more or less completed an infrastructure for a
larger edition project that should at least include a solution.
If you want you can go to
https://git.openlilylib.org/bfsc/kayser/tree/tidy-up
I'm preparing a few books of my compositions, and looking for the
best way to organize my files. For example, one such book
consists of 5 pieces for 3 cellos. I have:
- 5 "music data" files
- 20 "print instrument \bookpart" files ((1 score + 3 cellos) * 5
pieces)
- 4 "top-level" files which