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LaTeX is the de-facto standard for publishing layouts in the exact sciences. It is built on top of the TeX typesetting engine, providing the best typography available anywhere.
See The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX for an overview on how to use LaTeX.
Music is entered using
\begin[options,go,here]{lilypond} YOUR LILYPOND CODE \end{lilypond}
or
\lilypondfile[options,go,here]{filename}
or
\lilypond{ YOUR LILYPOND CODE }
Running lilypond-book yields a file that can be further processed with LaTeX.
We show some examples here. The lilypond environment
\begin[quote,fragment,staffsize=26]{lilypond} c' d' e' f' g'2 g'2 \end{lilypond}
produces
The short version
\lilypond[quote,fragment,staffsize=11]{<c' e' g'>}
produces
Currently, you cannot include {
or }
within
\lilypond{}
, so this command is only useful with the
fragment
option.
The default line width of the music will be adjusted by examining the
commands in the document preamble, the part of the document before
\begin{document}
. The lilypond-book command sends
these to LaTeX to find out how wide the text is. The line width for
the music fragments is then adjusted to the text width. Note that this
heuristic algorithm can fail easily; in such cases it is necessary to
use the line-width
music fragment option.
Each snippet will call the following macros if they have been defined by the user:
\preLilyPondExample
called before the music
\postLilyPondExample
called after the music
\betweenLilyPondSystem[1]
is called between systems if
lilypond-book
has split the snippet into several postscript
files. It must be defined as taking one parameter and will be
passed the number of files already included in this snippet.
The default is to simply insert a \linebreak
.
For printing the LaTeX document you need a DVI to PostScript translator like dvips. To use dvips to produce a PostScript file, add the following options to the dvips command line:
-o -Ppdf -h file.psfonts
where the filepsfonts file is obtained from
lilypond-book, See Invoking lilypond-book, for details. PDF
can then be produced with a PostScript to PDF translator like
ps2pdf
(which is part of GhostScript). Running dvips
will produce some warnings about fonts; these are harmless and may
be ignored.
This page is for LilyPond-2.8.8 (stable-branch).