Re: lilypond-book with multi-dir projects

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "Graham" == Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

    Graham> Has anybody used lilypond-book for large (100+ pages) documents?
    Graham> In particular, I'm having trouble with .lytex files in
    Graham> subdirectories.

Yes, that's a major problem.

The hack I'm using is to link all the lilypond files into one
directory.  I have a script that changes the names to include some
unique string, usually the directory name.

    Graham> I could hack up a post-lilypond-book python script to do
    Graham> such things, but that feels like such a hack.  :(
    Graham> I could also abandon lilypond-book and create/insert .eps files
    Graham> directly, but that feels like even more of a hack.  :)

I don't think there's any way to use lilypond-book to do real work without 
several
kinds of hacks.  I'm using:

   A hack to get the margins to correctly line up with the headers.

   A hack to get the included files to cause recompilation

   The above mentioned hack to allow input files in multiple
   directories.

I think it's worth it to avoid using the hacks which will undoubtedly
change next month that people are adding to let lilypond do some of
the work of a real publishing program.  I don't expect anyone whose
experience of open-source software is limited to lilypond to believe
this, but I do have LaTeX files from almost 20 years ago that still
work.

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