Re: architecture document?

Hello, This page should point you in the right direction: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/136571/musixtex-vs-lilypond More on MusiXTeX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusiXTeX https://www.ctan.org/pkg/musixtex Sadly, MusiXTeX suffered a terrible blow with the accidental death of its ma

architecture document?

Hello all: I've recently started using Lilypond and so far it's great. I don't think I'm saying anything surprising by observing what seems to be a close family resemblance to TeX. Did it start out as TeX macros and diverge? I wonder if there is a document out there that might talk about the desi

Re: Downloading documentation?

On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, Damien Garwood wrote: Hi there, I've just recently started with Lilypond and am really enjoying it. If the developers are on here, I want to start by publicly offering my thanks. I would like to be able to access all the manuals locally if possible. How would I go about

Re: Downloading documentation?

On 10/14/2020 4:35 PM, Damien Garwood wrote: I would like to be able to access all the manuals locally if possible. How would I go about downloading the HTML versions? The doc tarball should contain the entire website structure for the HTML documentation.

Downloading documentation?

Hi there, I've just recently started with Lilypond and am really enjoying it. If the developers are on here, I want to start by publicly offering my thanks. I would like to be able to access all the manuals locally if possible. How would I go about downloading the HTML versions? For various pers

Markup in left and right margins

Hello everyone, Would anyone know if there is a way to add mark-up in the left and right margins of the page. There are footnotes and headers for the bottom and top of the page, respectively. For example, I might want to add notes in the margins, rather than in the music. Many thanks, mattfong

Re: Markup Between Systems

I do something like that with notes for arrangements on lead sheets; this is the basic “skeleton” of my .ly file for these. Perhaps that might work for you? I separate the \score block at the bottom from the musical statements because that’s how I was shown to do it way back when. I don’t kno

Re: Markup Between Systems

Hi Marc, > So...what I am trying to do is put a block of text above a system that > occupies the full width of the page. This is a theatrical work, and the block > of text is a stage direction that is paragraph-length. I do this all the time (see screenshot, attached). > I can create a dynamic

Re: Markup Between Systems

So...what I am trying to do is put a block of text above a system that occupies the full width of the page. This is a theatrical work, and the block of text is a stage direction that is paragraph-length. I can create a dynamics context at the top of the score, and attach my markup to a spacer rest