FW: Scope of scheme defines in Lilypond projects

[James Lowe]

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Mackenzie [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: 11 February 2011 14:50
To: James Lowe
Subject: Re: Scope of scheme defines in Lilypond projects

Hi James,
Thank you for the pointer. Booked out over the weekend time wise so will check 
this out early next week.
Much appreciated...
Here's hoping.

Simon Mackenzie

On 2011/02/11, at 16:43, James Lowe wrote:

> Simon,
> 
> )-----Original Message-----
> )From: address@hidden
> )[mailto:address@hidden On 
> )Behalf Of Simon Mackenzie
> )Sent: 11 February 2011 07:37
> )To: address@hidden
> )Cc: address@hidden
> )Subject: Scope of scheme defines in Lilypond projects
> )
> )Hi
> )I'm wanting to write some globally accessible scheme functions / 
> )procedures (defines) for my lilypond project but the documentation on 
> )such seems a bit limited. I.e. Do \header, \page and other contexts 
> )introduce new variable scopes (assuming yes here)? If so, how can 
> )scheme functions and variables be defined globally for access in all 
> such )scopes within a lilypond project?
> 
> I am not a scheme programmer but want to check that you have considered the 
> \include and \global settings?
> 
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/working-with-inpu
> t-files
> 
> Simply put; have a single file with all your 'global' settings in and then 
> you can include other files that you need - for instance many of the mutopia 
> scores that are in LilyPond format are done like this with a single 'global' 
> file - the main score and all the various instrument files - the notes -  
> done separately.
> 
> You can then add the scheme functions to the one file and then just include 
> that file in all your other .ly files as needed.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> James
>