Re: using lilypond book to create pdfs without latex

[Philip Chinery]

> I still don't follow.  This is a scripting language called
> "songbook"?

it is a script that creates a songbook from a number of (extended, i.e.
with lilypond inclusions) chordpro files.

> > I am basically looking for a promising place to start.
> > 
> > I have found this
> > <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Inserting-LilyPond-output-into-other-programs#Inserting-LilyPond-output-into-other-programs>
> > 
> > That looks quite fine, except that this gives me the lilypond file in
> > one big file, not linewise. But I need to have the lines, as I want to
> > make page breaks and use the space under the music to add text.
> 
> Either split your .ly file into distinct pieces, as Valentin
> suggested, or create a tex file.  lilypond-book automatically
> splits files into distinct .eps files, so you could grab those
> files and convert them to whatever you wanted.

the splitting seems a lot of work, as it has to be done manually and
redone when the page sizes or indents or something like that are
changed.