On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 at 12:09, Ken Ledeen <kled...@nevo.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> From time to time I would like to include / exclude portions of the total
> score. For now, in the crudest of ways, I just comment out the parts I
> don't want (%{ ..... %}). That works, of course, but I was wondering if
> there was a more elegant way.
>
> Ideally I would have some variable that I set to boolean #t or #f to
> indicate what I want included. Then, instead of the %{ .... %} if would
> be something like
>
> if includeFlag { ... }
>
> Then I wouldn't have to search around for where I'd included the comment
> start and end brackets.
>
> I found the scheme if function but it didn't seem like an option.
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
>
> Ken Ledeen
>
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Hi Ken,
For big projects I use something like this. You change a string set at the
top of the file, and it compiles the movements you ask for. My Requiem was
in 7 movements. It was fiddly to set up, but once that was done, it was
easy to just work on one movement.
Cheers,
Vaughan
%%%%%%
\version "2.24.0"
compileTheseMovements = "12" % can be "1", "2", or "12"
EmptyBookpart = {}
FirstMovementBP = \bookpart {
\score {
{ c'1^"1st movement" }
\layout {}
}
}
SecondMovementBP = \bookpart {
\score {
{ d'1^"2nd movement" }
\layout {}
}
}
\book {
\bookpart {
$(if
(string-contains compileTheseMovements "1")
FirstMovementBP
EmptyBookpart)
}
\bookpart {
$(if
(string-contains compileTheseMovements "2")
SecondMovementBP
EmptyBookpart)
}
}
%%%%%
Cheers,
Vaughan
