GNU LilyPond

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Integrating LaTeX and music

You specify LilyPond code like this:

     \begin[options, go, here]{lilypond}
       YOUR LILYPOND CODE
     \end{lilypond}
     

     \lilypondfile[options, go,here]{filename}
     

or

     \lilypond{ YOUR LILYPOND CODE }
     

We show some examples here.

     \begin[26pt]{lilypond}
       c' d' e' f' g'2 g'2
     \end{lilypond}
     

produces this music:

Then the short version:

     \lilypond[11pt]{<c' e' g'>}
     

and its music:

You can use whatever commands you like in the document preamble, the part of the document before \begin{document}. lilypond-book will send it to LaTeX to find out how wide the text is and adjust the linewidth variable in the paper definition of your music according to that.

After \begin{document} you must be a little more careful when you use commands that change the width of the text and how many columns there are. lilypond-book knows about the \onecolumn and \twocolumn commands and the multicols environment from the multicol package.

The music will be surrounded by \preLilypondExample and \postLilypondExample. The variables are defined to nothing by default, and the user can redefine them to whatever he wants.

Please send GNU LilyPond questions and comments to lilypond-user@gnu.org.

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Copyright (c) 1997--2002 Han-Wen Nienhuys and Jan Nieuwenhuizen.

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