>> I just wanted to say that in July, we published a reprint of Gotlandstoner, >> a collection of about 500 traditional fiddle tunes from Gotland, Sweden. The >> reprint was typeset with Lilypond. > > Impressive! Could you describe the production process for this? In the > PDF properties I can see references to LuaTeX and TeX Live 2016, so I'm > guessing that's what produced it. Was lilypond-book used there? I have > dreams of doing a project this size, and I'm still trying to understand > the best way to structure it.
I’m glad you asked! :) 1) One-time conversion from abc files to lilypond ”notes files” – lilypond source, but only the notes (and key and time signatures etc) 2) The ”notes files” are combined with a song template using a config file, to produce lilypond ”song files” – complete lilypond documents 3) The song files are run through lilypond to produce pdf files 4) The text information from the abc source is extracted and inserted into a book template, again using the config file, to produce a ”book document” in latex format, which also includes the individual song pdf files 5) The latex document is run through LuaLaTEX I didn’t use lilypond-book as I needed more control over the process, but the overall principle is the same. Apart from the first one-time conversion from abc, all steps are scripted and a hash is appended to the names of all generated files, so that changing a single tune (in the ”notes file”) requires only a single terminal command to rebuild the complete book, and only the affected song is recompiled. Having the entire project under version control has been a big help, I can highly recommend using git (or something similar) for any bigger Lilypond project! Feel free to check out the project on github (https://github.com/erikronstrom/gotlandstoner)! The bin folder contains all the scripts (but be warned that the code is a bit messy and mostly undocumented). Most scripts are written in perl. If you have any more specific questions, also feel free to email me privately! Regards Erik _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
