In any text editor, it's trivial to automatically replace all occurences of
something like
\lilystart
by
\begin[staffsize=12]{lilypond}
\include "bookstyle.ly <http://bookstyle.ly>"
or whatever, so I have personally not seen any need for this feature.
Of course it's very clever to do what you did, namely to include a
separate .ly file that contains all the necessary settings.
If you have a large number of short snippets, I see that your solution
might be
convenient. Did you consider using a standard preprocessor like CPP or M4
(search the mailing list archives for "preprocessor" for some related
discussions
on the use of preprocessors in pure .ly files)?
/Mats
v!ictor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hello lilyponders,
I've been using lilypond-book for the first time. love it!
There's one thing that I'd like to have though. I'd love to be able to
define macros in a similar way as in latex. Is this possible?
From what I've read in the documentation, lilypond-book only knows to
look for \begin{lilypond} and \lilypond{ }, so no macros can be
defined *for lilypond-book* inside the latex file. If you try to do
this, lilypond-book ignores them and then latex tries to interpret
them and fails.
So i wrote a little parser that looks for a lilypond delimiter,
specifically \lily{ [music] } and replaces that for whatever i define
in my parser, for example
\begin[staffsize=12]{lilypond}
\include "bookstyle.ly <http://bookstyle.ly>"
[music]
\end{lilypond}
Now compiling a lilypond-book becomes a three step process:
1. parse book.tex to find \lily{ } and replace with arbitrary lilypond
stuff
2. run lilypond-book on book.tex
3. run latex on book.tex
So if there is no way of doing this in lilypond-book, would anyone
else be interested in integrating something like this in the core
lilypond-book code? would it be useful for others?
best,
victor
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