On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 4:33 PM Wol <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 05/01/2023 20:29, Xavier Scheuer wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 at 21:11, Mark Mathias <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >  >
> >  > Partly to duplicate a 1910 popular song layout, and partly to
> > continue growing in LilyPond skill, I'm wanting to suppress the
> > bookTitleMarkup instrument field after page 1.
> >  >
> >  > I've read the sections on Titles and Headers, Customizing, etc., and
> > other parts of the manual, and I've made a number of attempts, but I'm
> > not yet at the point where I understand what to do.
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > The best way is to look at the definition of oddHeaderMarkup and
> > evenHeaderMarkup in ‘ly/titling-init.ly <http://titling-init.ly>’ and
> to
> > modify it accordingly.
> > If you comment (or remove) the lines containing \fromproperty
> > #'header:instrument, you get what you want (see below).
> >
> > \paper {
> >    oddHeaderMarkup = \markup
> >    \fill-line {
> >      ""
> >      % \unless \on-first-page-of-part \fromproperty #'header:instrument
> >      \if \should-print-page-number \fromproperty
> #'page:page-number-string
> >    }
> >    evenHeaderMarkup = \markup
> >    \fill-line {
> >      \if \should-print-page-number \fromproperty
> #'page:page-number-string
> >      % \unless \on-first-page-of-part \fromproperty #'header:instrument
> >      ""
> >    }
> > }
> >
> And, because it's a system file, you have a choice. Do you want to
> modify the system file, or do you want to copy it.
>
> I've done this with header.ly or whatever it's called, and while others
> might disagree, I've got my own copy of this file which I include in my
> projects (don't remember off the top of my head how I did it).
>
> But imho this is the best way to do it. When the system is updated, your
> changes don't get over-written. And you remember, because your layout is
> different from the default, that you have a modified version of a system
> file.
>
> (My header file lays out the piece title, composer, instrument etc in
> typical brass band layout which is both noticeably different and more
> compact from lily's default orchestral layout.)
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
>
>
 Thank you, Xavier. I recognize this now as similar to when I added a boxed
"Score" in the upper LH corner on a previous project, but understand it more
this time.

And, thank you, Wol! That's actually a habit I had already picked up!

(And this time I remembered to bottom-post...)

Blessing,
Mark

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