Re: lilypond-book download

[Pablo Zumarán]

Wow, that's a lot of good stuff. Thank you!


Graham Breed wrote:
> 
> Pablo Zumarán <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> I'm having trouble understanding something. In Item 4 of
>> "GNU Lilypond – Application Usage", under the heading
>> "Integrating Text and Music", it explicitly says this
>> "lilypond-book provides a way to automate this process:
>> This program extracts snippets of music from your
>> document, runs lilypond on them, and outputs the document
>> with pictures substituted for the music." According to
>> this, LilypondBook is a "program". I'm new to
>> command-line usage, so that might be why this confuses
>> me. Is it not a stadalone program?
> 
> Yes, lilypond-book is a program.  If you have it, it will
> be in /usr/bin/lilypond-book
> 
>> I wish the Lilypond site had complete examples to study
>> from, rather than just specific examples meant to be
>> understood only by experienced command-line users who
>> would know where to apply them. I have TeXMaker,
>> TeXWorks, TeXLive, eMacs, GNUTeXmacs, have tried to get a
>> pdf file with text and music from all of them without
>> success. I've no idea, for instance, how to make TeXMaker
>> understand a Lilypond command; or what program to use
>> TexXInfo on, or even whether TeXInfo is itself a program.
> 
> If you're working with LaTeX, you need to run pdflatex on
> the file that lilypond-book produces.  In Ubuntu, pdflatex
> should come with TeXLive and be in /usr/bin/pdflatex
> 
> For Lilypond 2.12 (the one that comes with Ubuntu LTS) full
> instructions are in the documentation.  The first example,
> under Application Usage is in "4.1 An example of a
> musicological document". If you don't have xpdf, replace
> it with evince to view the resulting file.  If you don't
> have lilypond-book or pdflatex, Ubuntu will tell you how to
> install them.
> 
> If you aren't familiar with the command line, you'll need a
> tutorial on that.  This is the first one that comes up with
> Google:
> 
> http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/
> 
> By the end of Tutorial Three, you should know what you need
> to follow the Lilypond documentation.
> 
> 
>                      Graham
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