Re: pageBreak outside a score?

[Eric Benson]

Thanks. Yes, this looks like it will work for my needs.

On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 2:36 PM Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:

Le vendredi 05 mai 2023 à 11:02 -0700, Eric Benson a écrit :

Would there be a way to conditionally include a \pageBreak at top level? E.g. \if #(some-predicate) { \pageBreak }

Try

$(if (some-predicate) #{ \pageBreak #})

Generally speaking, LilyPond doesn't reinvent the wheel through a full-fledged programming language of its own, but just reuses its host language, Scheme.

Reading these pages might help:

https://extending-lilypond.gitlab.io/en/scheme/conditions.html#if-syntax

https://extending-lilypond.gitlab.io/en/extending/intro.html#inserting-scheme-inside-lilypond

https://extending-lilypond.gitlab.io/en/extending/lily-and-scheme.html