Re: Overriding a global declaration

[Thomas Morley]

Am Mi., 7. Aug. 2019 um 20:37 Uhr schrieb John McWilliam
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>
> Following my previous mail I have tried to simplify my problem in a book 
> containing three tunes:
>
> A normal tune with 13 lines of Music where the last line should spill over 
> into the next page. It doesn’t when compiled together with…
> A so called reduced tune also with 13 lines which now fits onto one page 
> after following suggestions from Thomas Morley.
> The final tune is normal and should perform as number 1 and spill over onto 
> the next page – it doesn’t.
>
> Simply stated, I want to be able to reduce the size of one tune in a book 
> where the majority of tunes have a larger global definition of staff size. 
> The files are a simple and small as I could possibly make them at the same 
> time illustrating my dilemma.
>
> John McWilliam
>
> From: John McWilliam
> Sent: Wednesday, August 7, 2019 8:12 PM
> Reply to Thomas Morley:
> Still not out of the woods yet. I think it is due to the fact that your 
> example creates a bookpart in the Tune file and then again in the Book file. 
> If I remove the book deklaration from the Book file I loose my Table of 
> Contents! Also, isn’t the \paper section  unnecessary if it appears in 
> BP_format.ily??
>
> Sorry if my questions appears basic in nature – my level of experience using 
> Lilypond is limited.

Hi John,

please check before posting your example(s) work. You used relative
paths for the includes, which don't work with your stripped down files
...

I'd still recommend to use /bookpart, even more: wherever you insert
\pageBreak you should think about to start/end a bookpart.
(To keep the title page I didn't wrap your table-of-content into an
extra bookpart. Nevertheless for own projects I tend to create a
title-page indepent from book-header, then the toc in an own bookpart,
then the other bookparts)

Admittedly including a bookpart into another bookpart will not work,
so you shouldn't state a /bookpart in the to-be-included file, but
wrap it around the tocItem/Section and the \include when called in
\book
You may need to pay more attention for correct headers, this is the
only disadvantage I know.

If you do so (with the correct syntax) you can have different settings
for every bookpart via \paper.
NB a general \paper will affect every score/bookpart of the book.

Btw, in your BP_format.ily you write
ragged-bottom = ##t
Why? It causes some warnings, I've commented it without disadvantage
as far as I can tell.

So the only difference in \paper of the "reduced" bookpart is:
ragged-last-bottom = ##f
Maybe one could go for `page-count´ or `systems-per-page´ instead.

My code suggestions attached.

HTH,
  Harm

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