On Thursday 08 December 2005 09:14 am, Simon wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a beginner at lilypond and I am getting confused trying to do something > which seems to be a very natural and frequently occuring task to me, but for > which I cannot find proper documentation and/or examples on the web and in the > manual. > > I want to create a collection of many short tunes, each one living in a separate > lilypond file. For these tunes I want to have a uniform layout which I want to > be able to change quickly for all files. So the natural idea is to move the > necessary definitions to a separate file, say "tune.ly" and read them with > > \include "tune.ly"
See slyce.py, on my site. An example is the Carcassi 'scales', q.v., under instruction. It stores all the tunes in one file and then you create a separate file for each tune with a single command. It's very fast and simple. daveA -- Free download of technical exercises worth a lifetime of practice: "Dynamic Guitar Technique": http://www.openguitar.com/instruction.html email: "David Raleigh Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>|<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Full name in address field is needed to pass filter) _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user