5.3 Large projects
When working on a large project, having a clear structure to your
lilypond input files becomes vital.
- Use a variable for each voice, with a minimum of
structure inside the definition. The structure of the
\score
section is the most likely thing to change;
the violin
definition is extremely unlikely to change
in a new version of LilyPond.
violin = \relative c'' {
g4 c'8. e16
}
...
\score {
\new GrandStaff {
\new Staff {
\violin
}
}
}
- Separate tweaks from music definitions. This
point was made previously, but for large
projects it is absolutely vital. We might need to change
the definition of
fthenp
, but then we only need
to do this once, and we can still avoid touching anything
inside violin
.
fthenp = _\markup{
\dynamic f \italic \small { 2nd } \hspace #0.1 \dynamic p }
violin = \relative c'' {
g4\fthenp c'8. e16
}
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