Pablo Zumarán <pab...@ymail.com> wrote: > I'm having trouble understanding something. In Item 4 of > "GNU Lilypond – Application Usage", under the heading > "Integrating Text and Music", it explicitly says this > "lilypond-book provides a way to automate this process: > This program extracts snippets of music from your > document, runs lilypond on them, and outputs the document > with pictures substituted for the music." According to > this, LilypondBook is a "program". I'm new to > command-line usage, so that might be why this confuses > me. Is it not a stadalone program?
Yes, lilypond-book is a program. If you have it, it will be in /usr/bin/lilypond-book > I wish the Lilypond site had complete examples to study > from, rather than just specific examples meant to be > understood only by experienced command-line users who > would know where to apply them. I have TeXMaker, > TeXWorks, TeXLive, eMacs, GNUTeXmacs, have tried to get a > pdf file with text and music from all of them without > success. I've no idea, for instance, how to make TeXMaker > understand a Lilypond command; or what program to use > TexXInfo on, or even whether TeXInfo is itself a program. If you're working with LaTeX, you need to run pdflatex on the file that lilypond-book produces. In Ubuntu, pdflatex should come with TeXLive and be in /usr/bin/pdflatex For Lilypond 2.12 (the one that comes with Ubuntu LTS) full instructions are in the documentation. The first example, under Application Usage is in "4.1 An example of a musicological document". If you don't have xpdf, replace it with evince to view the resulting file. If you don't have lilypond-book or pdflatex, Ubuntu will tell you how to install them. If you aren't familiar with the command line, you'll need a tutorial on that. This is the first one that comes up with Google: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/ By the end of Tutorial Three, you should know what you need to follow the Lilypond documentation. Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
