Re: Reverse Lilypond Book...

[Jan-Peter Voigt]

Hi Sami,

for the purpose of a text at the beginning of a music-book, I created a 
markup-list command.
This command expects some installed commands: pdflatex and/or xelatex, 
pdftops and pdfinfo.
I use ubuntu so this is installed via aptitude and callable on the 
console. I don't know anything about how this could work on windows ...

These are the function, that I created for my own purposes, so I cannot 
give any warranty, that they do work as expected!
And take care/ATTENTION: This function creates files on your harddisk, 
processes them with the above mentioned commands *and then removes these 
working files!*

So this is a proof of concept and the answer to your question: yes it is 
possible
But you (or whoever) might have to tweak this stuff to work as *you* 
expect ;-)

HTH
cheers, Jan-Peter

On 21.06.2012 01:50, Sami wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> This has probably been asked before, but I haven't found it anywhere, so I
> ask it myself. Excuse any repetition, and please direct me there if it
> exists and you can find it easily.
>
> With lilypond-book and co, what I understood is that one writes a LaTeX
> document with lilypond snippets. Essentially, it is a text document, and has
> some musical examples. LaTeX is the boss.
>
> What if we want to do the exact opposite? Like, a music book with snippets
> of TeX or LaTex-formatted text. An ideal situation would be for prefaces,
> contents, etc. to be in LaTex, or TeX or whatever, and then the music in
> lilypond, and all of this inside the lilypond file.
>
> I suppose that each LaTeX snippet would be a small LaTeX document with its
> own preamble etc, and most page-formatting variables dictated by lilypond,
> which would do the analogous of what lilypond-book does, but in reverse.
> Such a case would be great if one wants to write a music book, but using the
> Tex text functionality for any big chunks of text, like cover pages,
> prefaces, contents, etc.
>
> Is any of this possible?

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