Re: Organize collection of scores

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno sab 5 nov 2016 alle 0:55, Noeck <address@hidden> ha 
scritto:
> A) *folders per compilation step and file type*
> My currently planned approach would be to have a folder for each type,
> like libraries, scores, pdfs, etc. and then some shell scripts to
> produce the output of a particular score or all of them and place the
> result into the appropriate folders. The disadvantage is that it would
> probably be impossible to produce the output with a simple lilypond 
> call
> but only the scripts would be able to engrave the score.

This is a serious disadvantage.

What are the LilyPond or Frescobaldi limitations/missing features for 
this approach to be possible?
You can already include the libraries in a file.
What you are missing is the possibility of defining a certain output 
directory for each output file (PDF, MIDI) of each score. Right?
The audio files would still have to be generated by a script.. Or do 
you use the audio export of Frescobaldi?

I don't remember if you can set the output directory in a LilyPond file 
(possibly one for each output file type).
This issue is about MIDI file naming:
https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/3154/
> B) *folders per score*
> The alternative would be to keep pdf, midi etc. right next to the 
> input
> files. An additional management script could produce all scores at 
> once
> and could sum up the required space on disk, etc. But each score would
> be compilable within its own directory and without special tricks -
> perhaps an include path to a library.

This is what I use and I think it's the best approach.
If I want to find a specific file type (PDF or MIDI) I use a file 
manager or a documents manager (like Gnome Documents).