Hi Ponders
Hi
I’m feel sure this question must have been addressed before, but I can’t
find any hints in the documentation which don’t involve editing lots of
files.
I’m inputting Scottish dance music for the accordion. It has my own
preferences about chord naming and positioning and also fingering on the
notes themselves. Each one has a shape like this:
\include “Dance.ily”
%{ titles etc }%
tuneSetup = { \key g \major \time 2/2 \partial 4 }
tuneChords = \chordmode { s4 g1 }
pianoChords = \chordmode { s4 g2 e:m7 }
tuneMelody = { a b c d }
mainScore = score = {
<<
\new ChordNames { \tuneSetup \transpose c' c {\tuneChords } }
\new Staff \with { midiInstrument = "Accordion" } \tuneMelody
>>
\layout { indent = 0 }
}
\mainScore
When I am working on a piece, this is fine. It produces an independent copy
of the tune.
But I would like to combine these pieces in groups and to be able to use
the individual elements *without* having to edit all the individual tune
files. I have tried this:
\set Score.skipTypesetting = ##t
\include “Tune 1.ly”
% etc
\set Score.skipTypesetting = ##f
\mainScore
But, of course, I can’t \set Score.skipTypesetting at the top level. Tags
also only operate on musical expressions rather than scores.
I think this is exactly equivalent to writing a set of orchestral parts
where the individual instruments need editions which include cues but the
full score only needs the instrumental notes.
I have looked in
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/different-editions-from-one-source#using-global-settings
But this only points me to editing each individual file – and it would make
more sense to copy and paste them into big file. I have been brought up to
prefer \include’s over multiple possibly identical copies. Just need to
know how to ask LilyPond to do it.
Thanks in advance
Paul McKay
