> On 21 Jan 2017, at 17:31, Lodewijk de Vries <lodewijk.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi there, > > I'm a music teacher, and I'd like to use LilyPond to create music notation > examples, to use them in lessons, tests and theory overviews. Pretty much > like the graphic examples in the LilyPond handbook, > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/5f/lily-9dc23fce.png for example. > > But: I don't know how to create the PNG files. I've done some research, and I > found out that it can be done through use of the command line. I never used > the command line (or the terminal), so guess I'm stuck there. > > Can someone explain to me what to do, in order to create small notation > snippets, like in the handbook? Currently I'm using LilyPond on my Macbook > (OS X). > > Thanks! > - Lodewijk > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user Lodewijk,
assuming that you installed Lilypond within /Applications like any regular Mac OS application (drag-and-drop to the Applications). The procedure for getting a PNG would be: - Open the Terminal app - cd to the folder that contains your Lilypond file (assuming you filed it somewhere inside Documents it would be done using cd ~/Documents/your/deeper/folders - from there start the lilypond executable with the proper commandline options: /Applications/Lilypond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond -fpng yourLIlypondFile.ly In order to get such small snippets you would also have to optimize the papersize in your snippet (or use post-processing with a graphics application to cut away the superfluous unused paper from the image) If you need help on that part as well I would be happy to help you there as well. Just let me know. regards, Hans _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
