FWIW, I assemble my song books using ghostscript. I create batch jobs that compile all the songs into separate PDF's, I make table of contents, index, texts, etc. in the word processor of my choice and print those pages to PDF file(s). Certain educational pages I also make in my word processor by importing "clips" (see -dclip-systems option) into the documents from lilypond compiles of the full scores. Once all the PDF's are made, I run gs to assemble all of them into a book. I know this might not be the standard procedure, but it gives me a lot of flexibility in what tools I can avail myself of in making a book, since any application can "print to PDF" and gs lets me concatenate pdfs easily. At the end of my batch job a single complete PDF is produced that I can take to the print shop. For a couple of the books I output 2 files, one for the color printer and another for the b/w printer and collate/bind the pages manually. Some some pages I've used Photoshop to incorparate photos of jazz musicians amongst their scores. All with pdf being the common denominator prior to gs concatenating things to a single pdf.
tabster wrote: > > Hi, > > I´m quite new to lilypond but I´m already fascinated. I want to layout a > whole songbook with about 200 songs. Until now I worked with Sibelius and > now I´m thinking of typesetting that songbook with lilypond. But there are > some things to consider and I hope you can help me a bit: > > 1) Should I only work with lilypond or better mit LaTeX and lilypond-book > (I > already work with LaTeX)? There are not many texts to add to the songbook. > I want to have a song number next to each song (on the top outer corner of > the page). > > 2) If I do it without LaTeX, only using lilypond: I think it would be a > good > way to have one file for each song in the songbook. But there are other > problems: The identifiers I use for verselyrics or harmonies have to be > unique project-wide, don´t they? > In that case I could try to do it without identifiers - that wouldn´t be a > big problem. > > At first, these are my question - I think, later there´ll be more ... > > Thanks > > tabster > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/The-best-way-to-create-a-songbook--tf3229258.html#a8978805 Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user