Re: using lilypond in LaTeX (MacTeX)

[Br. Samuel Springuel]

LilyPond is not a LaTeX package, but a standalone program for 
typesetting music.  To combine LilyPond and LaTeX output into the same 
document, you have several possibilities:

1) lilypond-book: 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/usage/lilypond_002dbook

This is a pre-processor script which comes packaged with LilyPond.  It 
scans your document, identifies and extracts the LilyPond content, runs 
lilypond to generate images of that content, and then generates a new 
TeX document in which the LilyPond content has been replaced by 
`\includegraphics` commands which point to those images.  The script is 
also capable of generating other formats (like html) as it is designed 
to work with the texinfo system in which LilyPond's own documentation is 
written.

2) lyluatex: https://github.com/jperon/lyluatex

This package uses the Lua scripting capabilities of LuaTeX to execute 
lilypond from within a TeX document.  This streamlines your workflow 
over lilypond-book because now there is just one compilation step: the 
compilation of the TeX document.  Its behavior is otherwise very similar 
to lilypond-book as it is intended to be a complete drop-in replacement 
for it.  Development is ongoing and the package has just reached the 
point where it should be able to reproduce all of lilypond-book's 
non-texinfo capabilities.  There are also a couple of additional 
features which are either in the works or have already been implemented 
which are designed to make the output look nicer automatically.

3) manual score inclusion

You can also use LilyPond to create images (or whole pdf pages) which 
can be manually included in your LaTeX document just like any other 
images (or pdf pages).  This option will give you the finest level of 
control, but you'll have to do everything for yourself, which makes it a 
much longer process.


My personal choice is #2, but I might be slightly biased as I help out 
on that project.
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Br. Samuel, OSB
St. Anselm’s Abbey
Washington, DC
(R. Padraic Springuel)

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