Hi, Graham Percival wrote: > > On 3-Jun-06, at 1:51 AM, Roderick Camelia wrote: > >> I'm a recent user of Lilypond and currently writing a music theory >> book for popular music. I've downloaded the Lilypond system since I'm >> needing a way to print musical examples among the text. >> I've gotten as far as being able to make the notes appear in >> the PDF format. Now I need to find out if it's possible to copy the >> examples from my Adobe Reader 7.0 to my Openoffice.org 2.o Writer >> where I'm writing the text. (This text processor is compatible with >> MicroSoft Word.). >> On the Lilypond website there is advertised "MIX MUSIC AND TEXT" >> and it says further: " with the lily-pond utility you can integrate >> music into LaTeX or HTML seamlessly". >> Can anyone explain to me how to achieve all of this? Thanks in >> advance. > > This is explained in Chapter 13 lilypond-book: Integrating text and > music. There you will find that the integration is done with LaTeX, > texinfo, and html. If you are definitely using OpenOffice.org, you > can probable insert pdf images into your document. For more info, > you'll have to consult somebody more familiar with OOo (possibly on > this mailist). > I guess a good solution would be to produce postscript instead of pdf and to import that file to a image processor like gimp or inkscape. That way you can create either png or svg files which both could be used as images in your openoffice file. AFAIR OOWriter also supports importing of encapsulated postscript which can be created with the ghostscript-tool ps2epsi.
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