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
\scoresection is the most likely thing to change; theviolindefinition 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 insideviolin.fthenp = _\markup{ \dynamic f \italic \small { 2nd } \hspace #0.1 \dynamic p } violin = \relative c'' { g4\fthenp c'8. e16 }