Hi Trevor, 2013/12/6 Trevor Daniels <t.dani...@treda.co.uk>: > > David Kastrup wrote Thursday, December 05, 2013 5:48 PM > >> We need to figure out how we can provide "style sheets", similar to how >> LaTeX makes it possible to define "document classes" (layout definitions >> and tools) and "packages" (raw functionality packaged into coherent >> interfaces). > > A simpler approach would be to embed templates into LP so that they > could just be invoked. The template would provide the context structure > of a particular type of score, and also define the variables needed. All > the (new) users would need to do would be to override the values of the > variables with their own music. > > You can try this now by simply using \include. Two \include's are needed: > one which goes at the top of the file to define and set up the default > values of the variables and one which goes at the bottom of the file to > define the context structure. A real example using a template which > provides an SATB choir on two staves with lyrics between them and > a piano staff with accompaniment is attached. I've left out the two > include files, but you can easily image what they contain. You'll see this > is a really easy interface for a new user, as all the complication is > provided by the included file. > > A nice feature is that any context left without input is not printed, so the > same template could be used for SA and piano, just piano, a variable > number of verses, etc.
I very much like it! Could you add it to https://github.com/openlilylib/snippets/tree/master/templates ? _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
