Hi List,
I'm back to doing engraving work (after Urs has very helpfully helped me get my project back in order), and I've realized something again that I've wished Frescobaldi had as part of its functionality.
In my other, tex-based text editor (LyX, which is excellent for editing large documents btw), you also have the ability to use something similar to included files as part of your master document. In addition to the usual compile functions, there is however also one for when you are editing the child documents, which causes the *parent* document to compile. This is very useful when your child document does not have any of its own settings specified, and so can't compile on its own (in Tex, settings are inherited from parent documents, so things like font choices, specific packages to use, etc., are applied to the master document and all its included children consistently, much like how \includes work with Lily).
Would there be a way to add a similar functionality to Frescobaldi? That is, if a document is open for editing, and also the parent document that is actually the one on which you run Lily to compile the "master" document, that a button or key-combination could invoke Lily on the parent, and output that to the preview window?
It's a minor feature, but it would save me having to tab over to the parent document every time I want to update the file I'm editing.
On a side note, I'm really happy to be able to work on music again, and to see how much Lily and Frescobaldi have improved since last fall.
Cheers,
A