Re: Proposal of feature: inline options

[Mats Bengtsson]

All the settings that can be done with
lilypond -d...
can be done also within LilyPond using
#(ly:set-option ...)
Run
lilypond -dhelp
to get a complete list of these options. For example, you can do
#(ly:set-option 'preview #t)

However, there are other settings that cannot be done within the input 
file,
for example setting the output format to png. I guess that at least for the
output format selection it would be very easy to add this possibility.
I'm not sure about all other options. Perhaps the input file isn't read
early enough to handle all of them (just speculating).

  /Mats

Francisco Vila wrote:
> Csound does it, for example. You can call the compiler with
> commandline options, but you can also write your options in the input
> file, and commandline options would override them if they are present.
>
> This would ease dramatically the png or preview generation for Windows
> users (among many other possibilities)
>
> Or, is it already possible from within scheme?
>   

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