cordilow (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: > Oh, > > That's awesome! About the HTML, with Lilypond-book, I mean. > > Wow--that makes me happy. All you have to do is surround your lilypond file > in and then type something like lilypond-book -o thePathOfOurputPlusFileName > nameOfFile. > Of course, you have to change the extension to html instead of ly. Anyway, > then it makes a webpage of your html file, using a png image. > > Anyway, that is intensely cool . . . but I had something a little different > in mind. The only difference is, I want a PDF file out of the HTML file > afterward (provided I edit the HTML to set up the text how I want). I mean, > I just want to use HTML code for the layout, not the actual file format. > > With this, however, I can still format things the way I want--it's just not > all compact into one file in the end--is there a way to do this? I don't > care whether it's pdf or png, though. Thanks, by the way.
It sounds like you need to learn Latex or Texinfo--these are markup languages (not unlike HTML) that can produce pdf files more appropriate for printing, and can be used by lilypond-book in the same way. www.tug.org might be a good place to start, but others may have better suggestions. What operating system are you using? --Cam _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
