Thanks Micheal!
The '\unless \on-first-page' was what I went with on the first try. It was the
magic sauce.
-David
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Werner" <reznae...@gmail.com>
> To: "bobroff" <bobr...@centrum.is>
> Cc: "Lillypond Users Mailing List" <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2023 1:09:05 PM
> Subject: Re: pageNumber
> Hi David,
>
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 7:18 AM bobr...@centrum.is <bobr...@centrum.is>
> wrote:
>
>> I have the following in my \paper block. I want to eliminate the page
>> number on page 1. I have 'print-first-page-number = ##f' but the
>> oddHeaderMarkup is overriding it. Is there a way around this? Some sort of
>> conditional?
>>
>
> Turns out you just need to swap two lines. The \if conditional will apply
> to the next item ... and just the next item. It prints the next item if
> true, and leaves it blank if false. But the next item is the empty quotes,
> so something that's already empty. So just swap the \if conditional line
> down one to put it right before the page number line and all should be well.
>
> oddHeaderMarkup = \markup {
> \fill-line {
> "" \larger\bold "SCORE"
> \if \should-print-page-number
> \fromproperty #'page:page-number-string
> }
> }
>
> There's also an alternative you can use, that kind of does this from the
> opposite viewpoint. This will print the page number unless it's the first
> page. Either should work, just going at things in two different ways. In
> some circumstances (special cases? tricky layouts?) one might be preferable
> over the other. But there are options to explore.
>
> oddHeaderMarkup = \markup {
> \fill-line {
> "" \larger\bold "SCORE"
> \unless \on-first-page
> \fromproperty #'page:page-number-string
> }
> }
>
> For more details on these, have a look at:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/custom-layout-for-headers-and-footers
> and
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/conditional-markup
> --
> Michael
