Hi Kieren, I did a lot of choral pieces. In November there was a public performance of "Der einhundertvierte Psalm" of "Engelhard Barthe" (1906-1977, musician at St.Katharinen in Hamburg, Germany, until destruction in world war II) in Hamburg, where I produced (co-working with Barthe's family) all performance material using lilypond. And I created a book with songs of "Friedrich Ferdinand Leo" (1867-1948) for voice and piano and I created a book with a-cappella works of "Thomas Dittmann" (1931-1998), musician at St.Katharinen, Hamburg, Germany from 1957 to 1994.
1. For anything, wich is mainly music, lilypond-book doesn't make to much sense (IMO!) So, I wouldn't start to engrave an opera (or musical or oratory like the mentioned psalm) using lilypond book. I started to transcribe a book of Dittmann about organ improvisation, where I am using lilypond-book. 2. I collected a lot of shortcut-helper-functions wich are loaded automatically with my lalily-framework ( https://github.com/jpvoigt/lalily ... should now work well with 2.17.96). And lalily has its own way of organizing templates, paper, layout and header. This way several parts of a book or a piece with multiple movements can be collected by lilypond. 3. there are some, but how to name them? 4. there is always a workaround ... wait, one thing would be to use different music-fonts ... or better, to make it easier (I know of lily-jazz and gonville) Just some thoughts. Best, Jan-Peter Am 16.12.2013 22:59, schrieb Kieren MacMillan: > Hello all! > > I would love to hear from anyone who has engraved a full opera or musical > (with at least vocal score plus full score) in Lilypond. > > Specifically: > 1. Is lilypond-book the only sane way to do it? > 2. What functions/extensions/tricks did you use to bend Lily to your will? > 3. What pitfalls are to be watched for (and hopefully avoided)? > 4. What limitations cannot [currently] be overcome? > > Thanks, > Kieren. > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user