⌂ Ready-to-use LilyPond macros: advanced layout and titles, using a special stylesheet

Taking LilyPond to a whole new level

This snippet is actually a set of advanced macros that provide some useful predefined commands. You can just copy the whole code, paste it in a separate file, named, for instance, 'book-titling.ily'; then just include it in your score and use the provided macros (see the end of the snippet description if you want an example of an actual score source file).

Using LilyPond to produce a whole book

This snippet allows you to create:

a nice title page
a table of contents
some fancy page headers (with book and chapter titles)

The following commands are provided (in addition to LilyPond standard syntax)::

\bookTitle string
defines the book title, as it should appear in even page header
\chapter string
adds a page break and a big title, and a title in the TOC set the odd page header
\section string
adds a section title, and a title in the TOC
\piece markup
adds a piece title in the TOC
\titledPiece markup
adds a piece title in book body and in the TOC
\useRehearsalNumbers boolean
if set to 'true', adds rehearsal number before pieces

In this snippet, you will find the ready-to-use stylesheet (you may save it as a separate file named "book-titling.ily", and then include it in your scores), and at the bottom of the source code, a short example demonstrating some of these abilities.