Re: How to organize the source?

[Hans Forbrich]

Thanks to all who responded - and special thanks for reminding me of Mutopia.

The idea of a \global had not even occured to me - I'm effectively duplicating
that the hard way.  (Hence the reason for the question!)

/Hans

Graham Percival wrote:

> Not as far as I know.  If you're curious about what other people do, you
> could look at mutopia -- they have many lilypond files, ranging from
> instrumental solo to SATB choir to full orchestra.
>
> Your approach looks reasonable.  I personally have one \global voice, which
> has all spaces, \breaks, \key, \time, and \mark, but there's nothing wrong
> with spreading that across two voices.
>
> For most of my files, I have one file with just the music (for example,
> tetra.ly) and then a number of individual instruments -- violin1.ly,
> violin2.ly, viola.ly, cello.ly, and sc-tetra.ly.  "sc" stands for score.
> I made a simple script that does "ly2dvi sc-*.ly" (along with xdvi with
> my favourite settings), which I can use for any project.  When I'm working
> on tetra, it complies sc-tetra.ly; when I'm working on my overture, it
> complies sc-orch.ly; etc.
> (when I'm writing for orchestra, I split the one music file into sections --
> winds.ly, brass.ly, etc)
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham