Gilles Thibout made a very well lilypond library what handles all you are 
asking for.

https://github.com/gilles-th/arranger.ly

It has a steep learning line(at least my experience). Once the notes of your 
composition are written down, you do not need to copy them again.

Check it out, it might be what you need.

Met vriendelijke groet, Eef

H.E. Weenink MBA

Op 12 sep. 2022 om 19:28 heeft Greg Lindstrom <gslindst...@gmail.com> het 
volgende geschreven:


I have created my first full score for brass band and euphonium solo using 
Lilypond (and Frescobaldi). The score looks wonderful; I've had it bound at a 
local print shop and it looks downright professional. There are a number of 
things to correct and I've created an issue for each and will correct them and 
reengrave. Being a professional computer programmer, I went to the trouble of 
checking everything into a code repository (github) to ensure I can track all 
my changes and not lose all this work if my computer decides to die.

I've ordered the Lilypond manual from Lulu and plan to read through it to learn 
more about Lilypond; I do much better with printed media rather than 
electronic. but have questions:

  1.  I'd like to place line and page breaks in the individual parts. Being a 
player, I appreciate when consideration is taken as to where page breaks fall. 
I have individual files for each part with the "notes" in a separate file and 
the score bringing everything together. Is it possible to place breaks in the 
part so it does not affect the score?
  2.  The score looks best on 11" x 17" paper but the first print shop I 
contacted could not spiral bind anything that large (I found another shop which 
could do it and I'm glad I did). I set the paper size in the score to 8.5" x 
11" and while things can fit, it is extremely cramped. Is there a setting to 
reduce the size of everything (staves, notes, dynamics, etc.) as I reduce the 
paper size?
  3.  On the individual part, I'd like to place the instrument name in the 
upper left corner of the page. Currently, it is on the first staff.
  4.  Can I place a header on the second and following pages which would show 
the title and page number of the piece in a smaller font than the first page?

Perhaps all of this is in the manual which will be arriving in the next few 
days. But any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your help. I hope to start writing code snippets and answering 
questions as I gain more experience.

---greg

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