tex macros and lilypond-book

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> I'd like to define a macro for snippets of music
> examples in LaTeX so instead of writing:
> 
> \begin{figure}[h]
>   \caption{\emph{\small{Caption}}}
>   \label{label}
>   \begin{center}
>     \begin[notime,smallverbatim,singleline]{lilypond}
>     \clef bass
>     c d e f g a b
>   \end{lilypond}
>   \end{center}
> \end{figure}
> 
> I could write
> 
> \my_lily_example_macro{
>   \clef bass
>     c d e f g a b
> }
> 
> I guess I don't have to mention that lilypond-book naturally
> fails to work when using macros like this, since it simply processes
> everything between \begin{lilypond} and \end{lilypond} leaving
> everything else untouched. And the \begin{lilypond} and \end{lilypond}
> are only to be found in the macrodefinition, so nothing happens...
> 
> Is it possible to expand user-defined macros before running
> lilypond-book or how can I solve the problem?

I would suggest defining a new environment, that does the caption
formatting, the centering, etc. Then add a macro to your editor
to insert 

>     \begin[notime,smallverbatim,singleline]{lilypond}
>     \clef bass
>     c d e f g a b
>   \end{lilypond}

with a single keystroke.


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