Re: Importing / inserting files into a single book using \bookpart

[Knute Snortum]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM Dirck Nagy <dirckn...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Lilypond,
>
> I am trying to engrave a "book" of pieces by a single composer.  I was
> hoping that using \bookpart would make controlling print layout easier.
>

I've attached three files that give you a very stripped down version of how
you could use include files and bookparts to create your book.  Basically,
you create the music in score-one.ly and score-two.ly, then print them with
book-example.ly.  The nice thing about this arrangement is that you can
still print the individual pieces very easily.  I hope that helps.

--
Knute Snortum

\version "2.24.4"

rightHand = \relative {
  d'1
}

leftHand = \relative {
  \clef bass
  d1
}

scoreTwo = \score {
  \new PianoStaff <<
    \new Staff \rightHand
    \new Staff \leftHand
  >>
}
\version "2.24.4"

\include "score-one.ly"
\include "score-two.ly"

\bookpart {
  \scoreOne
}

\bookpart {
  \scoreTwo
}

\version "2.24.4"

rightHand = \relative {
  c'1
}

leftHand = \relative {
  \clef bass
  c1
}

scoreOne = \score {
  \new PianoStaff <<
    \new Staff \rightHand
    \new Staff \leftHand
  >>
}