On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 9:14 PM Dirck Nagy <dn...@uwlax.edu> wrote:
> Hello all > > I’m looking for tips, advice, or even tutorials on publishing complete > printed books (extensive text and musical examples) using Lilypond. > > Examples of some projects I would like to re-edit and print: > • a collection of individual pieces > • a book of etudes (i.e. several different complete pieces, with > commentary) > • a teaching manual (many short musical examples, 1 – 8 measures long, > with commentary) > • eventually, a complete Counterpoint textbook...but this will be > several years down the road! > > Questions I have for the community: > • how did you integrate Lilypond examples into the document? > ◦ (export / import Lilypond as pdf, image, etc…?) > • What publishing / word processing software did you use for the final > assembly? > • Any problems you had that you didn’t foresee? > For me, it's lilypond-book with LaTeX. https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/usage/latex LaTeX is made for publishing. For a serious publication, it's SO much better than a word processer. HTH, Carl
