Re: lilypondfile

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

On 2012-08-28 07:09, pabuhr wrote:
>     > Is there a way to generate an eps file directly as for a ps file? I need 
> the
>     > bounding box to include the exact output into latex (I'm not using 
> pdflatex).
>     > I tried manually converting the ps to eps: ps2pdf generates a file that is
>     > unusable (go figure), and "convert" generates a low quality image (maybe 
> one of
>     > the many parameters can fix this). Using command-line option 
> "backend=eps" does
>     > generate a eps file but it's not the same as the original because it is 
> for
>     > lilypond-book
>
>     I see no reason why there should be a difference.
>
> There is a small shift left and up that is different from lilypondfile, which
> is what I was previously using. I can compensate in latex.
>
>     lilypond -dbackend=eps -daux-files=#f file.ly
>
>     should be what you are after...
>
> Perfect, except it still generates a PDF file, which I don't need and I could
> not find an command-line option to prevent the PDF from being created.
> But that's what a Makefile is for: I just delete the PDF.

Lilypond also has a --ps option.... So what you want is:

 lilypond -dbackend=eps -daux-files=#f --ps file.ly

Cheers,
Reinhold Kainhofer
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