Thanks to all who responded - and special thanks for reminding me of Mutopia.
The idea of a \global had not even occured to me - I'm effectively duplicating that the hard way. (Hence the reason for the question!) /Hans Graham Percival wrote: > Not as far as I know. If you're curious about what other people do, you > could look at mutopia -- they have many lilypond files, ranging from > instrumental solo to SATB choir to full orchestra. > > Your approach looks reasonable. I personally have one \global voice, which > has all spaces, \breaks, \key, \time, and \mark, but there's nothing wrong > with spreading that across two voices. > > For most of my files, I have one file with just the music (for example, > tetra.ly) and then a number of individual instruments -- violin1.ly, > violin2.ly, viola.ly, cello.ly, and sc-tetra.ly. "sc" stands for score. > I made a simple script that does "ly2dvi sc-*.ly" (along with xdvi with > my favourite settings), which I can use for any project. When I'm working > on tetra, it complies sc-tetra.ly; when I'm working on my overture, it > complies sc-orch.ly; etc. > (when I'm writing for orchestra, I split the one music file into sections -- > winds.ly, brass.ly, etc) > > Cheers, > - Graham _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
