Re: Creating marginal comments?

[Knut Petersen]

Am 29.11.2016 um 13:02 schrieb tapani:
> I am producing a hymnal, using Lilypond and lilypond-book with xelatex. I
> would like to insert biblical references in the margin of the page, parallel
> with the lyrics.
>
> For example, in "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing", the lyrics "Ris'n with
> healing in his wings" would have "Mal. 4:2" in the margin.
>
> In TeX like systems, this is easily done with the \marginnote command.

So do use TeX ;-) Put the attached files in an empty directory, don't forget to 
make mkhymex and mypdfcrop
executable, then run ./mkhymex. You'll get an 8-page hymnal book with some 
example marginal notes.
Two A5 pages on every side of an A4 sheet, correctly arranged for printing.

hymex.tex is the hymnal example file to be compiled by lualatex or xelatex.
mkhymex is a script to translate hymex.tex to hymexc.pdf.
mypdfcrop is needed because pdfcrop is broken for pdfs without embedded fonts.

Only recent versions of luaLatex and xelatex will work. For lualatex that means 
version 0.8x won't work.
hymex.tex requires quire.tex provided by the midnight macro package.

You need a recent lilypond. Recent means very recent. The 
"-dgs-never-embed-fonts" must be present.

You need ghostscript. You'll need the current version.

cu,
 Knut

mkhymex
Description: Text document

mypdfcrop
Description: Text document

hymex.tex
Description: Text Data