Re: promoting LilyPond

[Trevor Daniels]

Janek Warchoł wrote Thursday, December 05, 2013 11:29 PM

> 2013/12/6 Trevor Daniels <address@hidden>:
>>
>> A simpler approach would be to embed templates into LP so that they
>> could just be invoked.  The template would provide the context structure
>> of a particular type of score, and also define the variables needed.  All
>> the (new) users would need to do would be to override the values of the
>> variables with their own music.
>>
>> You can try this now by simply using \include.  Two \include's are needed:
>> one which goes at the top of the file to define and set up the default
>> values of the variables and one which goes at the bottom of the file to
>> define the context structure.  A real example using a template which
>> provides an SATB choir on two staves with lyrics between them and
>> a piano staff with accompaniment is attached.  I've left out the two
>> include files, but you can easily image what they contain.  You'll see this
>> is a really easy interface for a new user, as all the complication is
>> provided by the included file.
>>
>> A nice feature is that any context left without input is not printed, so the
>> same template could be used for SA and piano, just piano, a variable
>> number of verses, etc.
> 
> I very much like it!
> 
> Could you add it to
> https://github.com/openlilylib/snippets/tree/master/templates

I could, but I'll need to annotate them first.  And as I said above,
a pair of \include'd files are needed, one at the top and one at the
bottom - the user code goes in-between the two.

Trevor