Hi Francisco sorry for the late reply I want to add it to the tracker but I'd like to have some more information
2013/5/1 Francisco Vila <[email protected]> > 2013/5/1 Federico Bruni <[email protected]>: > > 2013/4/30 Francisco Vila <[email protected]> > >> > >> Hello. > >> > >> In "File structure" we are saying that bookparts can help on having > >> different paper settings for each part, but in fact this conflicts > >> with the statement we state (in the same page) that paper settings act > >> on the whole book. > >> > >> This is confusing, do you agree? > >> > > > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/file-structure > > > > I don't think it's really confusing, but it may be better explained with > > examples. > > I think that we may add a paper block and an explanation in the last > snippet > > of this page: > > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/multiple-scores-in-a-book > > > > BTW, Trevor recently pushed this: > > https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2902 > > > > see NR 4.1.1: > > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/the-_005cpaper-block > > What I read all around is that settings are merged. The interesting > bit is a hierarchical prevalence. But a simple experiment which I'm > sure many users have tried, is to set a variable in a paper block in a > bookpart, and see how this variable affects the whole book. Any > example from us should show that you can not expect this setting > affects only to that bookpart unless you have a setting in a higher > hierarchy that acts as a default for the rest of the book. > > I don't understand the last sentence. Do you have an example? In the simple example attached, the hierarchical prevalence works fine. > >> I've also seen many unanswered questions in the list archives about > >> using bookparts to join scores. IMO it is confusing that we don't > >> offer a template or something warning that you can not simply include > >> a working score in a bookpart, and instead you have to handle a > >> bookpart as if it were a score block. > > > > > > I can't understand your last sentence. > > Handle a bookpart as if it were a score block, in the sense of you can > not put assignments on it. What one expects is to have a working file > with both variable assignments and a \score{}, and simply put it > inside of a bookpart{}, which can not be done just as you can not put > assignments into the \score{}. I think it is common that users want to > join scores in a book and first thing they try involves leaving their > original files untouched. This is not possible: you have to split > every file in two, and include them in different places of the master > file, namely assignments outside of the bookpart and scores inside of. > > minimal example please these things are tricky...
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