Hi,
Okay, I'll let myself sucked in this (in my opinion
unnecessarily) heated thread **for one post only**.
While I wouldn't call the proposed methods hacks, I
more or less share Paolo's dissatisfaction with the
current way footers are made customizable. What if
I wanted to write a stylesheet to place page numbers
at the bottom, and another to print them in an italic
font? These stylesheets will not combine, because they
will both redefine {even,odd}{Header,Footer}Markup
for their own purposes.
I have a vague but persistent dream that someday page
layout would become handled through grobs and contexts
like what we have for each individual score. Imagine
these stylesheets could be written as
%% Stylesheet 1
\layout {
\context {
\Book
\override PageNumber.direction = #DOWN
}
}
%% Stylesheet 2
\layout {
\context {
\Book
\override PageNumber.font-shape = #'italic
}
}
%% Main file
\new Book {
\new BookPart \with {
\omit PageNumber
} {
\markup ...
}
\new BookPart {
\new Score {
...
}
}
}
Regards,
Jean
