Re: Can headers and footers access the current \fromproperty #'header:piece

[Pierre-Luc Gauthier]

Thank you for your help Timothy.

Le mer. 7 août 2019 à 15:01, Timothy Lanfear <address@hidden> a écrit :
>
> Sorry, I sent a link to my local copy of the LP documentation: should
> have been
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/multiple-scores-in-a-book
>
>
> On 07/08/2019 19:56, Timothy Lanfear wrote:
> > The behaviour of bookpart is described at the end of this section
> > http://localhost/~lanfear/lilypond/Documentation/notation/multiple-scores-in-a-book.html.
> > Bookparts always start on a new page. Lilypond will distribute the
> > material of the preceding bookpart to fill the  whole of its last
> > page, so provided the sections of your score are not too short, the
> > layout will be fine. Otherwise, you might want to group several short
> > sections into one bookpart with a common running header.
> >
> > On 07/08/2019 19:43, Pierre-Luc Gauthier wrote:
> >> Thanks Timothy,
> >>
> >> It sure does the trick !
> >>
> >> Though,
> >> I was using \pageBreak as an example and I don't actually want them.
> >> I've adapted the MWE to reflect more accurately the situation.
> >> The point is for the musician to know where he is in the opera on any
> >> page he happens to open the book on. As a lousy example, on page 2,
> >> the musician does not know where he is in the production and has to
> >> open the book where a scene starts or to refer to the TOC of course.
> >>
> >> As a follow-up question : do you know if \bookparts can *not* produce
> >> \pagebreaks?
> >> I suppose it's part of what they were made for…
> >>
> >> Le mer. 7 août 2019 à 13:51, Timothy Lanfear <address@hidden> a
> >> écrit :
> >>> On 07/08/2019 15:29, Pierre-Luc Gauthier wrote:
> >>>> Hello there,
> >>>>
> >>>> I trying to add the *current* piece in the header and/or footer of,
> >>>> say, every page in a score.
> >>>>
> >>>> As mentioned here :
> >>>>
> >>>> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/creating-titles-headers-and-footers#default-layout-of-headers-and-footers
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> "These markup variables can only access text fields from top-level
> >>>> \header blocks (which apply to all scores in the book)."
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there a way to get around this limitation?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks for any pointers
> >>>> Here is a MWE
> >>>> --
> >>>> Pierre-Luc Gauthier
> >>> Structure the book with bookparts. As a bonus, a bookpart starts a new
> >>> page so you don't need pageBreak.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Timothy Lanfear, Bristol, UK.
> >>>
> >>
> --
> Timothy Lanfear, Bristol, UK.
>


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Pierre-Luc Gauthier