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3.1 An example of a musicological document
Some texts contain music examples. These texts are musicological treatises, songbooks, or manuals like this. Such texts can be made by hand, simply by importing a PostScript figure into the word processor. However, there is an automated procedure to reduce the amount of work involved in HTML, LaTeX, Texinfo and DocBook documents.
A script called lilypond-book will extract the music fragments,
format them, and put back the resulting notation. Here we show a small
example for use with LaTeX. The example also contains explanatory
text, so we will not comment on it further.
Input
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\begin{document}
Documents for \verb+lilypond-book+ may freely mix music and text.
For example,
\begin{lilypond}
\relative c' {
c2 e2 \times 2/3 { f8 a b } a2 e4
}
\end{lilypond}
Options are put in brackets.
\begin{lilypond}[fragment,quote,staffsize=26,verbatim]
c'4 f16
\end{lilypond}
Larger examples can be put into a separate file, and introduced with
\verb+\lilypondfile+.
\lilypondfile[quote,noindent]{screech-boink.ly}
(If needed, replace @file{screech-boink.ly} by any @file{.ly} file
you put in the same directory as this file.)
\end{document}
Processing
Save the code above to a file called ‘lilybook.lytex’, then in a terminal run
lilypond-book --output=out --pdf lilybook.lytex lilypond-book (GNU LilyPond) 2.14.2 Reading lilybook.lytex... ..lots of stuff deleted.. Compiling lilybook.tex... cd out pdflatex lilybook ..lots of stuff deleted.. xpdf lilybook (replacexpdfby your favorite PDF viewer)
Running lilypond-book and latex creates a lot of
temporary files, which would clutter up the working directory. To
remedy this, use the --output=dir option. It will create
the files in a separate subdirectory ‘dir’.
Finally the result of the LaTeX example shown above.1 This finishes the tutorial section.
Output
Documents for lilypond-book may freely mix music and text.
For example,
Options are put in brackets.
c'4 f16
Larger examples can be put into a separate file, and introduced with
\lilypondfile.
If a tagline is required, either default or custom, then the
entire snippet must be enclosed in a \book { } construct.
\book{
\header{
title = "A scale in LilyPond"
}
\relative c' {
c d e f g a b c
}
}
Footnotes
[1] This tutorial is processed with Texinfo, so the example gives slightly different results in layout.
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