Re: using lilypond book to create pdfs without latex

[Philip Chinery]

Thank you for the quick answer, though this is sad news for me, of
course ;-)

I am not really familiar with python and so I had a bit of a problem
looking at the code. In general, this should not be too hard to do, when
the groundwork is solid, to run this with custom widths instead of the
tex command things...
At least, there must be a way latex calls lilypond

kind regards,
Philip

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:16:19 +0200, "Valentin Villenave"
<address@hidden> said:
> 2008/6/26 Philip Chinery <address@hidden>:
> 
> > I am working on a small songbook script and I would like to embed the
> > lilypond pdfs (one pdf per line) into my pages. Is there a way to call
> > lilypond without having to create a surrounding tex file for that?
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I don't think this is possible unfortunately; however it is now
> possible to print an entire book (text and music) using only LilyPond.
> Rather than having multiples PDF files, you just have to have one
> "master" .ly file with a \book block, and in this block you can insert
> every \score block that represents your themes and scores.  Between
> these \score blocks, you can insert text using \markup or \markuplines
> command. Have a look at
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Multiple-scores-in-a-book
> and
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Multi_002dpage-markup
> 
> if you're interested.
> 
> Cheers,
> Valentin