2013/5/1 Federico Bruni <fedel...@gmail.com>: > 2013/4/30 Francisco Vila <paconet....@gmail.com> >> >> Hello. >> >> In "File structure" we are saying that bookparts can help on having >> different paper settings for each part, but in fact this conflicts >> with the statement we state (in the same page) that paper settings act >> on the whole book. >> >> This is confusing, do you agree? >> > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/file-structure > > I don't think it's really confusing, but it may be better explained with > examples. > I think that we may add a paper block and an explanation in the last snippet > of this page: > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/multiple-scores-in-a-book > > BTW, Trevor recently pushed this: > https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2902 > > see NR 4.1.1: > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/the-_005cpaper-block
What I read all around is that settings are merged. The interesting bit is a hierarchical prevalence. But a simple experiment which I'm sure many users have tried, is to set a variable in a paper block in a bookpart, and see how this variable affects the whole book. Any example from us should show that you can not expect this setting affects only to that bookpart unless you have a setting in a higher hierarchy that acts as a default for the rest of the book. >> I've also seen many unanswered questions in the list archives about >> using bookparts to join scores. IMO it is confusing that we don't >> offer a template or something warning that you can not simply include >> a working score in a bookpart, and instead you have to handle a >> bookpart as if it were a score block. > > > I can't understand your last sentence. Handle a bookpart as if it were a score block, in the sense of you can not put assignments on it. What one expects is to have a working file with both variable assignments and a \score{}, and simply put it inside of a bookpart{}, which can not be done just as you can not put assignments into the \score{}. I think it is common that users want to join scores in a book and first thing they try involves leaving their original files untouched. This is not possible: you have to split every file in two, and include them in different places of the master file, namely assignments outside of the bookpart and scores inside of. -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond