I just tried something out which may fill this requirement as discussed recently. It presently involves using additional software to Lilypond.
The PDF specification allows for file attachments within PDF files from version 1.3 onwards. The original .ly file can be attached within the LP pdf output, and extracted later if required. The PDF toolkit (google PDFTK) command line utility is one way to add the .ly file to the pdf. I do this on Mac OSX in the Terminal by entering on one line.. /usr/local/bin/pdftk tchavolo_swing_chords.pdf attach_files tchavolo_swing_chords.ly output attached.pdf The attachment can then be viewed or saved from 'attached.pdf' in Acrobat Reader using View->Navigation Panels->Attachments The attachment does not appear in normal viewing or printing of the pdf score. If worthwhile, it should be possible to make a Lily option somehow to do the attaching (with a bit of development). Any suggestions for making it clear the file contains a score attachment? e.g. different file extension? Steve _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
