Re: \book usage

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden wrote:
> Quoting Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden>:
>
>
> > Nicolas Sceaux wrote:
> >
> > > Table of contents comes to mind.
> > > I've made a reduction for voice+piano of Giulio Cesare for a singer,
> > > who asked me to add a table of contents. 
> >
> > ohhh! that's a fascinating problem! It should be doable in LilyPond, of 
> > course, but I'm putting it on "open to sponsor" list of features.
>
>
> It is a fascinating problem all right, but if the table of contents
> must be in the front pages of your document, it can turn ugly-ugly-ugly,
> you might consider doing multiple passes, and you will have basically
> reinvented LaTeX in the process :-)

Actually, it wouldn't. Lily keeps all pages in memory at the same time. 
I'd have to rewire the logic of composing pages (ie. putting headers and 
footers to them), and make a mechanism where you can transport 
information out of a \markup neatly. Things would only get hairy if the 
vertical space available on a page depends on the page number.

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