Re: good practices regarding page breaks -- full score and parts

[Leszek Wroński]

Thank you all for your suggestions! This is very helpful. Leo and Christian, I will try the 'skip' idea: in this particular case I have 616 measures of straightforward 2/4, so it should not be too unwieldy. Kieren, I will investigate the edition-engraver... I've already attempted to learn it a few times, but maybe this time I'll succeed.

You've all been very helpful. My thanks again!

Cheers,

Leszek.

On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 15:13, Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmillan@sympatico.ca> wrote:

Hi Leszek,

> I would like to compile a full score and parts based on one file containing musical definitions. I would like to put pagebreaks in specific places in the full score, so that they would not operate when parts are compiled. The way I'm doing it now is that I put a \pagebreak in one of the parts and use tags. E.g. the oboe part "oboeMusic" may contain
>
> \tag #'fullscoreonly { \pageBreak }
>
> And in the full score the part figures in the score as
> \keepWithTag #'fullscoreonly \oboeMusic
>
> while in the part file the part is compiled as
>   \removeWithTag #'fullscoreonly \oboeMusic 
>
> I don't really like this solution; it's just not tidy... and I have to remember which part I put the page breaks in. Are there any established Lilypond practices for doing this? Is it e.g. possible to introduce some sort of 'invisible part' on top of the rest which would just be used for editorial stuff like this?

I highly recommend looking into the edition-engraver for this purpose — “editorial stuff” (including breaks/layout control) is its primary use case, and it handles that kind of thing spectacularly.

Cheers,
Kieren.
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