Re: Automatically insert a space before and after a lilypond, environment

[Mats Bengtsson]

On 09/06/2013 03:57 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> Hello to all. I quote from the file usage.pdf in the section about
> lilypond-book:
>
> "Each snippet will call the Following macros if they have been defined by
> the user:
> \preLilyPondExample [...]
> \postLilyPondExample [...]
> \betweenLilyPondSystem [...]
> ?
>
> A few pages after this point, there is a concrete example of use of the
> \betweenLilyPondSystem command:
>
> \newcommand {\betweenLilyPondSystem}[1]{\vspace{<*length*>}\linebreak}
>
> This command inserts a vertical space equal to <*length*> between a system
> of staves and the next one. And it works well in my document
>
> I tried to use in the same way also the commands \pre- and
> \postLilyPondSystem, but I did not see any results after compilation of my
> document. What should these two commands exactly? Maybe insert space before
> and after the example of music? How they must be used?
It's up to your own imagination to make up what to use them for, I guess 
they were primarily included for completeness, when they were introduced 
in some ancient history. Try for example
\newcommand{\preLilyPondExample}{Hello, here comes a score\\}
just to see what happens.

    /Mats

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