Re: Combining roughly 70 separate files into a single book

2020-05-04 Thread Brent Annable
Federico, Thank you very much for this. I had no idea that's what I'd been doing wrong all this time! I tried it many years ago and just assumed it was impossible -- my eyes have been opened. Now I can get on with things. With much gratitude, Brent. On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 19:56, Federico Bruni

Re: Combining roughly 70 separate files into a single book

2020-05-04 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno lun 4 mag 2020 alle 14:39, Brent Annable ha scritto: Your strategy seems like good advice, and I've changed the files around so I can do it. But the master file is getting very long and complicated with all the \score blocks, so I have a question: can you put a \score block into a

Re: Combining roughly 70 separate files into a single book

2020-05-04 Thread David Kastrup
Brent Annable writes: > Hi Federico, > > Your strategy seems like good advice, and I've changed the files around so > I can do it. But the master file is getting very long and complicated with > all the \score blocks, so I have a question: can you put a \score block > into a variable, to avoid

Re: Combining roughly 70 separate files into a single book

2020-05-04 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello Brent, I you use the same names in numerous files, you can change them automatically in all of them with a script of some sort to make them distinct, to avoid cumbersome manual editing. JM > Le 4 mai 2020 à 06:39, Brent Annable a écrit : > > Hi Federico, > > Your strategy seems like

Re: Combining roughly 70 separate files into a single book

2020-05-03 Thread Brent Annable
Hi Federico, Your strategy seems like good advice, and I've changed the files around so I can do it. But the master file is getting very long and complicated with all the \score blocks, so I have a question: can you put a \score block into a variable, to avoid all the extra code in the master

Re: Combining roughly 70 separate files into a single book

2020-04-28 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno mer 29 apr 2020 alle 02:36, Brent Annable ha scritto: Does that do page numbers as well? I'd really like to eliminate any extra steps if possible; my goal is to have a master file that I can adjust as necessary, and then just press a button to spit the whole thing out every time I

Re: Combining roughly 70 separate files into a single book

2020-04-28 Thread JxStarks .
When I used this structure I did not use \book or \bookpart. I just used the \include and \markup. I'll post an example when I get home from work. -Jerry On Tue, Apr 28, 2020, 12:51 PM Brent Annable wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Does that do page numbers as well? I'd really like to eliminate any

Re: Combining roughly 70 separate files into a single book

2020-04-28 Thread Brent Annable
Hi Richard, Does that do page numbers as well? I'd really like to eliminate any extra steps if possible; my goal is to have a master file that I can adjust as necessary, and then just press a button to spit the whole thing out every time I need a new version. Based on Jerry's suggestion I've

Re: Combining roughly 70 separate files into a single book

2020-04-28 Thread Richard Shann
On Tue, 2020-04-28 at 23:37 +1000, Brent Annable wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for some general advice on how to combine about 70 files > into one, to turn multiple files into a single PDF. I guess you are aware that ghostscript can concatenate your pdfs? gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q