[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... > Hi Tobias, > > >I don't use lilypond-book, but call > >lilypond from within latex. This approach has some advantages and some > >drawbacks. > > 1) I'd like to know how you call lilypond from within latex. > > 2)Could you tell me the advantages and disadvantages of this approach?
Hello Patrick. lilypond-book seems to do the following: (text below i valid for \version "2.6.5", yes I know it is old, and I only tried it with \lilypondfile) a, run latex to get linewidth b, makes a new ly-file (e.g. lily-1045984756.ly) that sets the line width and basically prepends this to the original ly-file: #(set! toplevel-score-handler ly:parser-print-score) #(set! toplevel-music-handler (lambda (p m) (ly:parser-print-score p (ly:music-scorify m p)))) the above make the eps "cropped", else it has some space above and the the left c, runs lilypond --ps -b eps on the new file which gives you: the whole score in AA.eps (AA = eg. lily-1045984756) one system per file in AA-xx.eps lines of \includegraphics{AA-xx.eps}, one per system, in AA-systems.tex (plus a few other files) d, extracts the fonts from AA.eps to <origname>.psfonts (the AA.eps includes the fonts, AA-xx.eps does not) e, modifies your .lytex file -> .tex by replacing \lilypondfile etc. with \input AA-systems.tex === So to solve you 1) you have to do the same. You can manually set the linewidth and add the b, part to your ly-files. c, is a simple, just run the command To extract the fonts, you can cp lilypond-book to a new file and modify the end of it to (ie. leave out all other stuff): def main (): fontextract.extract_fonts (sys.argv[1],sys.argv[2:]) if __name__ == '__main__': main () Use e.g \includegraphics[width=39mm]{myfile-1.eps} etc. where you want your music. === Pro: easier to see errors in your latex file easier to work with bibtex and makeindex you can put your \includegraphics in an macro, does not work with \lilypondfile fewer files in your directory (all "those" lily-xxx-files) easier to do (different) things between (different) system lilypond-book does not sometime run lilypond --ps -b eps ie. when some \inlude'd file is changed easier integration into makefiles all.dvi: all.tex litt.bib Arcadelt.eps ... latex all bibtex all > log makeindex all >> log latex all >> log latex all >> log # lilypond-psfonts == the modified lilypond-book %.ps: %.dvi ./lilypond-psfonts $*.psfonts *[a-z].eps dvips -h $*.psfonts $< >> log ps2pdf14 $*.ps $*.pdf # if you want pdf's Arcadelt.eps: arcadelt.ly header.ly layout.ly vars.ly short.ly ... %.eps: %.ly rm -f $*-*.eps # the number of systems might have changed lilypond --ps -b eps $< Con: you must handle the linewidth yourself you must have one \includegraphics per system and handle that yourself somehow, maybe someone could write a latexpackage for that create the AA-systems.tex yourself you must have all your lilypondfragments and such in ly-files The rationale for me --- easier handling of latex. Regards, /Karl ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Hammar Aspö Data [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lilla Aspö 2340 Networks S-742 94 Östhammar +46 173 140 57 Computers Sweden +46 70 511 97 84 Consulting ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user