On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
Am 2011-08-19 um 17:08 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
But - can you even support different setups, say
\startlilypondpreamble
global settings for everything
\stoplilypondpreamble
\startlilypondpreamble[snippet]
global settings for snippets
\stoplilypondpreamble
\startlilypondpreamble[fullscore]
global settings for full scores
\stoplilypondpreamble
\startlilypond[setup=fullscore]
the score
\stoplilypond
etc.
Yes. I can support the following syntax:
\startbuffer[snippets] ... \stopbuffer
\startbuffer[fullscore] ... \stopbuffer
\startbuffer[common] ... \stopbuffer
\startlilypond[bufferbefore={snippets,common}, bufferafter={....}]
....
\stoplilypond
(In fact, provide similar support for anything defined using the filter
module).
The other thing is to be able to change linespace, papersize, offset, etc
using parameters, so that one can say:
\startlilypond[linespace=...]
...
\stoplilypond
This will require some lua side processing.
You mean, translate ConTeXt-style settings to LilyPond settings, like we did
with the old module?
Yes.
That wouldn’t make much sense. LilyPond just has too much settings. And most
of them you can set in different ways. To fully support this, you’d need a
complete LilyPond parser including Scheme. And a small set of settings is
never the right set for everyone.
OK.
Ok, there are a few settings that we could translate, e.g. set ConTeXt’s main
fonts also for LilyPond.
Agreed. Does anyone know how to get the name of the current font in MkIV?
We don’t need LilyPond's layout settings, as long as we go the
\externalfigure path.
But I think that at least automatic paper size settings (set paper
size to be equal to text area) are needed.
I don’t know a solution for line breaking of scores - if you’d set LilyPond’s
page size to ConTeXt’s remaining space, it would stay the same for the second
page. Perhaps we can get single lines (systems) and let ConTeXt to the page
breaking. I’ll look into that.
OK.
But I don’t know how we can make it "right" WRT LilyPond snippets - I’d want
to align a note systems’s base line with ConTeXt’s text baseline, but the
height and clipping of a snippet depends on the visible elements. Without
some picture analysis (or runtime data from LilyPond, that doesn’t exist
AFAIK) you need to adjust your snippets manually.
Does lilypond-book handle this at all? It does not appear to. Manually
adjusting each inline snippet will be too much work, IMO.
Do you know how lilypond numbers its output files. In some cases I get
filename-1.pdf sometimes not. Can I force it to always give filename-1.pdf
or always give filename.pdf
LilyPond adds a number to EPS, if there’s more that one page.
But in my songbook setup, I always get a filename-temp-lilypond-##.eps plus
an identical filename-temp-lilypond-##-1.eps
When you order more than one \midi{} in several \score blocks, the first MIDI
file is unnumbered, the second gets number 1 etc.; didn’t try with different
\layout blocks yet.
Seems like I must do some tests with multipage scores.
Look at the current version on github. It should be able to handle
multi-page snippets.
Aditya
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