Re: critical Lily to PDF question

[Mats Bengtsson]

> On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 04:34:27PM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> > > 
> > > Alternative 1 (single .ly file, you get just the music no titles):
> > > >>lilypond file.ly
> > > >>pdftex file.tex
> > 
> > I was wrong about this one. In principle, it should be possible
> > to do 
> > >> lilypond -fpdftex file.ly
> > >> pdftex file.pdftex
> > but unfortunately the backend for pdftex hasn't been updated
> > for a long time, so the result will look terrible (if you
> > even manage to get something out of Lilypond).
> 
> Hmmm, do you know how chances are that this will change in near or not 
> so far future? I once managed to produce a very nice song book with 
> clickable table of contents and even selectable midi files using lilypond 
> and pdftex. 

Most of the problems have already been solved in version 1.6.0.
Recently, I found a couple of remaining problems, but Stephen 
(who has done most of the PDF support) is working to fix them too.

   /Mats