Hi Francisco I don't want this request to be forgotten. Do you have time to make a minimal example which can help the developers to see exactly what the problem is?
2013/5/12 Federico Bruni <[email protected]> > 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... > > _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
