Some texts contain music examples. These texts are musicological treatises, songbooks, or manuals like this. Such texts can be made by hand, simply by importing a PostScript figure into the word processor. However, there is an automated procedure to reduce the amount of work involved in HTML, LaTeX, and Texinfo documents.
A script called lilypond-book
will extract the music fragments,
format them, and put back the resulting notation. Here we show a small
example for use with LaTeX. The example also contains explanatory
text, so we will not comment on it further.
\documentclass[a4paper]{article} \begin{document} Documents for @command{lilypond-book} may freely mix music and text. For example, \begin{lilypond} \relative c' { c2 g'2 \times 2/3 { f8 e d } c'2 g4 } \end{lilypond} Options are put in brackets. \begin[fragment,quote,staffsize=26,verbatim]{lilypond} c'4 f16 \end{lilypond} Larger examples can be put into a separate file, and introduced with \verb+\lilypondfile+. \lilypondfile[quote,noindent]{screech-boink.ly} \end{document}
Under Unix, you can view the results as follows
cd input/tutorial mkdir -p out/ lilypond-book --output=out lilybook.tex lilypond-book (GNU LilyPond) 2.5.0 Reading lilybook.tex... ..lots of stuff deleted.. Compiling out/lilybook.tex... cd out latex lilybook lots of stuff deleted xdvi lilybook
To convert the file into a nice PDF document, run the following commands
dvips -Ppdf -u+lilypond -u+ec-mftrace lilybook ps2pdf lilybook.ps
Running lilypond-book and latex creates a lot of
temporary files, which would clutter up the working directory. To
remedy this, use the --output=
dir option. It will create
the files in a separate subdirectory dir.
Finally the result of the LaTeX example shown above.1 This finishes the tutorial section.
Documents for lilypond-book may freely mix music and text. For example,
Options are put in brackets.
c'4 f16
Larger examples can be put into a separate file, and introduced with
\lilypondfile
.
[1] This tutorial is processed with Texinfo, so the example gives slightly different results in layout.
This page is for LilyPond-2.5.11 (development-branch).