Hi Sol. Looks great!
I did something along these lines a couple of years ago using something called lytex, which if I recall correctly sort of combines Tex typesetting with Lilypond. You can check out the main file (and entire codebase) here: https://github.com/MikeiLL/hymnal-Vol-II/blob/master/lilypond/hymnal.lytex <https://github.com/MikeiLL/hymnal-Vol-II/blob/master/lilypond/hymnal.lytex>. I forget what I was using Arara for, but I think that the way I have it set up Arara needs to be configured on your rendering computer to render the tex file and then that compiles. There’s also something called lilypond-book, but I think that’s more for including small clips of music within text. Mike https://www.CenterOfWow.com > On Oct 29, 2019, at 12:14 PM, Solomon Foster <colo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been using Lilypond to render fiddle tunes for nearly a decade now, and > I'm looking at taking the next step -- namely making a proper, large scale > tunebook with it. While the book I'm working on right now has hundreds of > tunes, it's not mine to redistribute, so I've put together a quick PDF with > some of my own tunes so you can get the idea what sort of music I'm talking > about: http://www.harmonyware.com/tunes/chunes.pdf > <http://www.harmonyware.com/tunes/chunes.pdf> > > As usual, every time I try to do something new in Lilypond I butt up against > the limits of my skills there, and finding what I'm looking for in the > manuals or snippets only works about half the time. As such, I thought I'd > try to post the things stumping me at the moment, and hope someone out there > has prior art to share or some clever solutions. > > 0) Has anyone out there done something like this before? All the examples > seem to be big classic music or choral works. I'd love to have a prior > example that I could raid for "how to do it" ideas. > > 1) How do I stop Lilypond from breaking a \score (one tune) across pages just > to cram more tunes in the same amount of paper? That is, splitting a \score > that requires 2+ pages is fine with me, but I'd rather not start a one-page > \score at the bottom of one page and finish it on the top of the next. > > 2) Right now I'm getting the text that goes after a tune by using \markuplist > and \wordwrap-lines after the related score is complete. I'd love to have a > way to let Lilypond know that the \markuplist is logically attached to the > prior \score. (If putting it in the actual score is the best approach, I'm > fine with that, I just haven't been able to figure out how to do it.) > > 3) I'd also like to be able to add blocks of lyrics after the end of a tune > which (again) logically attach to the tune. Right now I've got a hacky > implementation using \markuplist \column-lines \italic and \line which just > comes after the \score (like point 2 above), but I'd like to be able to ident > the lines a bit (or maybe center them?) as well, and all my attempts to do so > have been laughable failures. (Seriously, why did my attempt to center > result in half of each line disappearing!?) > > 4) I saw information on creating a table of contents (though I haven't tried > it yet). I'm having trouble finding anything on creating an index? Given > 200+ short tunes, that's probably much more useful, IMO. > > Thanks in advance for any and all help, > Sol > > -- > Solomon Foster: colo...@gmail.com <mailto:colo...@gmail.com> > HarmonyWare, Inc: http://www.harmonyware.com <http://www.harmonyware.com/>
