Re: bookpart, titles and table-of-contents

[Christopher R. Maden]

On 09/02/2012 08:22 AM, Federico Bruni wrote:
> I'm trying a different approach¹ in creating a book. Let me first 
> explain what I 'd like to achieve.
> 
> Let's say I have some scores which I'd like to print either on
> their own and inside a book which includes them all; and I want the
> title to show up correctly in both cases without having to touch
> any single score. It seems that \bookpart is perfect because I can
> use an \header block for each score.
> 
> But I have two problems in the book file which includes the
> bookpart files:
> 
> 1. page numbers in the table of contents don't work: I see a ? 
> instead of a number

The \bookpart starts a new page.  You have:

\tocItem \markup "1st piece"
\include "bookpart1.ly"

which sets the TOC entry, *then* starts (in the included file) a new page.

> 2. between the two scores a page with the main title is printed

I’m not sure what’s causing that.

I find I have to make the included files *just* be the music, and some
variable definitions that I can use in the book:

\include "first_music.ly"
\include "second_music.ly"

\book {
  \header {
    title = "Book Title"
  }
  \markuplines \table-of-contents
  \bookpart {
    \tocItem \markup { \firstTitle }
    \score {
      \firstSheetMusic
      \header {
        title = \firstTitle
      }
      \layout {}
    }
  }
  \bookpart {
    \tocItem \markup { \secondTitle }
    \score {
      \secondSheetMusic
      \header {
        title = \secondTitle
      }
      \layout {}
    }
  }
}

HTH,
Chris
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