Re: latex, newcommand and lilypond-book

[Mats Bengtsson]

Unfortunately, the lilypond-book program is naïve enough to only look 
for the
sequence of characters "lilypondfile" when searching through the file, 
i.e. it
does not understand your \newcommand trick. If you have a reasonably good
text editor, you can probably use that to replace all occurences of 
\lily{...} by
the block of code you wrote (for example in Emacs, you can use 
query-replace-regexp).

   /Mats

Joe Mc Cool wrote:
> Please,
>
> in my latex file I have:
>
> \newcommand{\lily  }[1]{\lilypondfile{#1}{#1}}
>
> but, lilypond-book then complains:
>
> lilypond-book: error: file not found: #1
>
> Again in my niavete, I had hoped to use blocks of latex code like:
>
>      \begin{figure}[h]
>      \index{over the ocean}
>      \lily{lilys/over.the.ocean.ly}  % current implementation of newcommand
>      \end{figure}
>
> I am using a figure environment to ensure that no tune involves a page
> turn.
>
> I have googled and googled and noticed that this issue has come up
> before, but I do not see a work around.
>
>   

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