On Tue, 2020-04-28 at 23:37 +1000, Brent Annable wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for some general advice on how to combine about 70 files > into one, to turn multiple files into a single PDF.
I guess you are aware that ghostscript can concatenate your pdfs? gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=merged.pdf *.pdf Richard Shann > > Over the past two years or so I've been typesetting a collection of > organ pieces for a friend. After doing the first few I created a > template that I subsequently used to set the rest, adding to it as I > went along whenever new problems presented themselves. Now the > collection is finished and I need to put them all together, and I'm > just wondering about the easiest way to go about it. > > Most of the Lilypond files contain multiple \score blocks (usually 2 > or 3) and the variables in each file all have the same names. I've > attached a typical file to give an idea of what I'm dealing with > (plus the file with my macros, for convenience). > > So I have about 70 files like this. How should I go about putting > everything together? Can I do an 'include' for every file somehow? Or > do I need to rename all the variables in each separate file to do > that? I've never done this before, so would really appreciate being > steered in the right direction to avoid having to reinvent the wheel. > > Many thanks, > > Brent.