Wow, that's a lot of good stuff. Thank you!
Graham Breed wrote: > > Pablo Zumarán <pab...@ymail.com> wrote: > >> I'm having trouble understanding something. In Item 4 of >> "GNU Lilypond – Application Usage", under the heading >> "Integrating Text and Music", it explicitly says this >> "lilypond-book provides a way to automate this process: >> This program extracts snippets of music from your >> document, runs lilypond on them, and outputs the document >> with pictures substituted for the music." According to >> this, LilypondBook is a "program". I'm new to >> command-line usage, so that might be why this confuses >> me. Is it not a stadalone program? > > Yes, lilypond-book is a program. If you have it, it will > be in /usr/bin/lilypond-book > >> I wish the Lilypond site had complete examples to study >> from, rather than just specific examples meant to be >> understood only by experienced command-line users who >> would know where to apply them. I have TeXMaker, >> TeXWorks, TeXLive, eMacs, GNUTeXmacs, have tried to get a >> pdf file with text and music from all of them without >> success. I've no idea, for instance, how to make TeXMaker >> understand a Lilypond command; or what program to use >> TexXInfo on, or even whether TeXInfo is itself a program. > > If you're working with LaTeX, you need to run pdflatex on > the file that lilypond-book produces. In Ubuntu, pdflatex > should come with TeXLive and be in /usr/bin/pdflatex > > For Lilypond 2.12 (the one that comes with Ubuntu LTS) full > instructions are in the documentation. The first example, > under Application Usage is in "4.1 An example of a > musicological document". If you don't have xpdf, replace > it with evince to view the resulting file. If you don't > have lilypond-book or pdflatex, Ubuntu will tell you how to > install them. > > If you aren't familiar with the command line, you'll need a > tutorial on that. This is the first one that comes up with > Google: > > http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/ > > By the end of Tutorial Three, you should know what you need > to follow the Lilypond documentation. > > > Graham > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/lilypond-book-download-tp32359182p32368853.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user