Music fragments with Lilypond?

[Edwin Vane]

Hi,

I've been playing with Lilypond since about yesterday so I'm pretty new.
I need a few figures for my thesis and the pdf output of lilypond on mac
os x is pretty nifty. Except I can't coax it into just giving me a pdf
of the music itself. I always get empty space as if it were trying to
fill the page. Is there any way to tell Lilypond to generate just the
music fragment and nothing else?

My current work around is to use lilypond-book on a test tex file. Once
it generates the eps files, I manually turn them into pdf to include in
my thesis. I was hoping for a better way.

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Edwin Vane
   MMath Candidate
   Computer Graphics Lab
   School of Computer Science
   University of Waterloo