fwiw I was never able to get Lyx’s native Lilypond mode working reliably. The manual was, and remains completely unhelpful.
That said, it is a good environment for embedding multiple Lilypond generated pdf/eps in a structured text document, because any changes in those pdf/eps files are picked up automatically without having to reimport them (cf MS Word) or even refresh Lyx - they just change. I’ve typeset a long complex analytical doctoral thesis and several harmony/analysis workbooks like this and it works really well. be aware that multi-page lilypond scores need to be imported into Lyx one page at a time - it will not ‘flow’ a score between multiple boxes. My sense is also that for smaller documents, learning Lyx is actually more work than just learning lilypond-book as tweaks outside of what Lyx provides (and there could be many) require you to know your way around normal ()TeX. D > On 30 May 2022, at 19:08, David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > On Sun 29 May 2022 at 20:30:34 (-0400), Kevin Cole wrote: >> [Asked on the lyx mailing list but, so far, no response.] >> >> I'm running the latest -- and greatest(?) -- release of Pop!_OS, >> which is effectively Ubuntu. Specifically, 22.04 LTS ("Jammy"). >> >> I'm finding myself having a hard enough time with LilyPond alone, >> without the added burden of learning everything about LaTeX, XeTeX, >> LuaTeX, etc, (just to get the font I want) along with LilyPond-Book. >> So, I'm hoping, for what I want to do, that LyX -- which I also don't >> know, will be less of a climb. > > It seems a slightly odd choice to me, as it's designed AIUI to give > a more wysiwyg experience, which would seem to be the opposite of > the lilypond-book workflow. Perhaps I'm wrong. > >> I've just installed LyX and have not adjusted any preferences / >> options / configurations. When I try Help -> Specific Manuals -> >> LilyPond I get a pop-up: > > Very appropriate! > >> ______________________________________________ >> The module lilypond requires a package that is not >> available in your LaTeX installation, or a converter that >> you have not installed. LaTeX output may not be possible. >> Missing prerequisites: >> lilypond-book->latex >> See section 3.1.2.3 (Modules) of the User's Guide for more information. >> ______________________________________________