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.
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