Maybe an even more elegant aporoach is using the
https://github.com/openlilylib/page-layout package. Will need some stuff to be
"installed" (and is not properly documented yet), but then provides a beautiful
interface for managing alternative break sets.
HTH
Urs
Am 11. Oktober 2016 18:34:05 MESZ, schrieb tisimst <tisimst.lilyp...@gmail.com>:
>Jim,
>
>On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Jim Duke [via Lilypond] <
>ml-node+s1069038n195281...@n5.nabble.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm seeking advice on how to approach typesetting some hymns for use
>in
>> worship. The music in our worship is A Capella congregational
>singing, and
>> we use both sheet music, which we put in folders in the pews, and
>slides,
>> which we project on a large screen at the front of the auditorium.
>For
>> each hymn I want to produce a PDF of the sheet music, a set of PNG
>files
>> for each of the slides, and a MIDI file to aid in teaching the hymns
>to the
>> congregation.
>>
>> The way I've laid out each hymn is to create the following files:
>>
>> Slides.ly
>> Sheet-Music.ly
>> Words-And-Music.ly
>>
>> Slides.ly and Sheet-Music.ly import Words-and-Music.ly.
>>
>> The idea is to separate the music from the layout. For the most part
>this
>> is working well. But before I get into some of the issues I'm
>> encountering, is this a good approach? I'm trying to make the
>Slides.ly
>> and Sheet-Music.ly as generic as possible. My end goal would be for
>the
>> Slides.ly and Sheet-Music.ly to be identical across all hymns; but
>that
>> currently isn't possible. I still need to manually unroll the music
>for
>> the slides (expand repeats, and music redirections such as DS al
>Coda,
>> etc.). If I could figure out an automatic way to do that it would be
>> fantastic.
>>
>> Sorry for the long context intro. Now to my questions. I'm having
>no
>> problems at all with the sheet music other than the normal stuff new
>> Lilypond users encounter. But for the slides there are several
>formatting
>> issues I'm having trouble with.
>>
>> First, on the first slide of every verse I put a title at the top
>with the
>> name of the song and the song number in our hymal. On following
>slides
>> from the same verse, there is no title. But, I'd like the first
>system on
>> every slide to start at the same place on the page. As we present
>the
>> slides the movement of the systems around on the page is distracting.
> I'd
>> like to fix them on the page if I could. Because of how large I want
>the
>> fonts to be, I typically can fit two systems on each page. I have no
>idea
>> how to accomplish that. Is there a parameter that directly controls
>the
>> distance from the top of the page to the first system?
>>
>> Second, controlling line breaks has been a challenge. Since I want
>to use
>> a single source of words and music; forcing line breaks in the music
>> doesn't work. Is there a way to embed the line break instructions in
>the
>> layout somehow? I've seen references to using space notes. For
>example,
>> for Abide with Me (tune EVENTIDE), I might have:
>>
>> For the sheet music:
>>
>> s2 s4 s4 | s2 s2 | s4 s4 s4 s4 | s1 | s2 s4 s4 | s2 s2 | s4 s4 s4 s4
>| s1
>> | \break
>>
>> For the slides:
>>
>> s2 s4 s4 | s2 s2 | s4 s4 s4 s4 | s1 | \break
>> s2 s4 s4 | s2 s2 | s4 s4 s4 s4 | s1 | \break
>>
>> The Words-and-Music.ly file would have no layout guidance at all.
>Would
>> that work? How would I combine the layout "rhythms" with the music?
>>
>
>I believe this is the right way to do it if you need a consistent
>layout. I
>do this kind of thing all the time. It is so nice to be able to play
>around
>with the layout without fiddling with the music code. Combining the
>layout
>with the music is as simple as this:
>
>\new Staff <<
> \rhythms
> \music
>>>
>
>By the way, except for times where you may want a mid-measure \break,
>you
>can simplify your "rhythms" variables like this (using your examples):
>
>For the sheet music:
>
>s1*8 \break (or s1 | s | s | s | s | s | s | s | \break if you want to
>keep
>the bar checks)
>
>For the slides:
>
>s1*4 \break
>s1*4 \break
>
>Just some thoughts for you. This is how I usually do it. You can also
>include other score-level objects in the "rhythms" variables like \bar,
>\tempo, \key, etc.
>
>HTH,
>Abraham
>
>
>
>
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