Re: using lilypond book to create pdfs without latex

[Torsten Anders]

Dear Karl,

thank you very much for sharing this -- I was looking for a long time  
for something like this! For interested folks I summarise below  
Karl's approach (for Lilypond version 2.10/2.11). This example  
outputs an eps cropped to the size required for the music.

Lily code:

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\version "2.11"
\include "lilypond-book-preamble.ly"

{ c }

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Lily call:

lilypond --ps -dbackend=eps MYFILE.ly

Best
Torsten

On Jun 27, 2008, at 8:10 AM, Karl Hammar wrote:

> Philip Chinery:
> > 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?
> ...
>
> Yes, there is.
>
> I am on the run so this message is incomplete, but have a look at [1].
>
> There I am using lilypond to create eps's, one file per line, and
> including thoose in something else (in my case latex).
>
> You could use lilypond in the same way, adding a step to convert the
> one-line eps's to pdfs. Be aware of that thoose one-line eps's don't
> contain fonts. The font can be extracted from the full page eps and
> possible added at the eps -> pdf stage.
> Though I think in 2.11 the one-line eps's include the fonts.
>
> [1] http://aspodata.se/noter/palestrina/dies_sanctificatus
>
> Regards,
> /Karl
>
>
>
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