Re: \displayLilyMusic function

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Dienstag, 6. April 2010 13:16:16 schrieb James Lowe:
> Now this all seems to work however I always get a PDF file created even
> if the *.ly file contains
> 
> \version "2.13.6"
> 
> {
>    \displayLilyMusic \transpose c a, { c4 e g a bes }
> }
> 
> I just want to check that that is expected behaviour (i.e. without any
> CLI switches 'Lilypond myfile.ly' with just the above information should
> create a PDF.

Yes, that's the intention. \displayLilyMusic will return the music expression 
it is fed (and thus schedule it for typesetting), but as a side-effect also 
print the music expression to the console.

Cheers,
Reinhold

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