Hi Dirck,
Am 15.11.25 um 08:48 schrieb Dirck Nagy:
Is there a (relatively) simple way to extract and print individual
parts from a completed score?
If "extract" means that you simply want to create single parts alongside
a complete score: This is perfectly possible, and while it's possible
(and sometimes convenient) to do so using multiple .ly files, shared
.ily files for including the actual music and so on, it's by no means
necessary.
What seems important to me is that it is not advisable at all to have
multiple LilyPond files around containing the same music (e.g. by taking
the flute part from a score and putting it into a new .ly file). This
creates all sorts of problems with diverging histories and versions, and
it's one of the strengths of working with LilyPond that this is never
necessary.
I'm trying to do the opposite: the score is already complete.
Here is a simple example created using Frescobaldi's score wizard. How
could I extract, and then edit and print the flute part?
In practice, you wouldn't edit the flute part in itself, but you would
take the flute music and re-use it for creating a flute part. In case we
need to change the flute part for the single-part extract only (e.g.
force some line break that's not needed for the score and the like), the
tagging mechanism is usually the most convenient tool.
Bascially, this is as simple as adding the following lines to your
example score:
\book {
\bookOutputSuffix flutepart
\header {
instrument = Flute
}
\score {
\flutePart
}
}
This creates a second .pdf file (with the added suffix "-flutepart")
containing only the flute. The "instrument = Flute" setting in the
\header { } block creates a "Flute" marking in the title in case a title
etc. are defined for the piece.
Some of your definitions will have to be moved around (you probably
don't want the shortInstrumentName baked into the flute music variable,
as it is needed for the score, but not for the inidividual part), but
these details can be worked on at a later point in time.
Does this already work for you?
Lukas
