Hi Leszek, > I would like to compile a full score and parts based on one file containing > musical definitions. I would like to put pagebreaks in specific places in the > full score, so that they would not operate when parts are compiled. The way > I'm doing it now is that I put a \pagebreak in one of the parts and use tags. > E.g. the oboe part "oboeMusic" may contain > > \tag #'fullscoreonly { \pageBreak } > > And in the full score the part figures in the score as > \keepWithTag #'fullscoreonly \oboeMusic > > while in the part file the part is compiled as > \removeWithTag #'fullscoreonly \oboeMusic > > I don't really like this solution; it's just not tidy... and I have to > remember which part I put the page breaks in. Are there any established > Lilypond practices for doing this? Is it e.g. possible to introduce some sort > of 'invisible part' on top of the rest which would just be used for editorial > stuff like this?
I highly recommend looking into the edition-engraver for this purpose — “editorial stuff” (including breaks/layout control) is its primary use case, and it handles that kind of thing spectacularly. Cheers, Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer (he/him/his) ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: kie...@kierenmacmillan.info