Reformulation thanks to David Bobroff.

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@c -*-texinfo-*-

@ignore

TODO: cleanup

** AARGH.e We also have tutorial.itely: Integrating text and music.

   Could also do with a cleanup.  Lost inspiration to fix this manual
   where to describe what?

@end ignore


@node lilypond-book manual
@chapter lilypond-book manual

If you want to add pictures of music to a document, you can simply do
it the way you would do with other types of pictures.  The pictures
are created separately, yielding PostScript pictures or PNG images,
and those are included into a La@TeX{} or HTML document.

@command{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.  The line width and font size definitions for the music are
adjusted to match the layout of your document.

This procedure may be applied to La@TeX{}, @code{html} or Texinfo
documents.  A tutorial on using lilypond-book is in @ref{Integrating
text and music}.  For more information about La@TeX{}
@uref{http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/,The not so
Short Introduction to LaTeX} provides a introduction to using La@TeX{}.




@menu
* Integrating Texinfo and music::  
* Integrating LaTeX and music::  
* Integrating HTML and music::  
* Music fragment options::      
* Invoking lilypond-book::      
@end menu



@cindex texinfo
@cindex latex
@cindex texinfo
@cindex @code{texi}
@cindex html
@cindex documents, adding music to


@node Integrating Texinfo and music
@section Integrating Texinfo and music

Music is specified like this:

@example
@@lilypond[options,go,here]
  YOUR LILYPOND CODE
@@end lilypond
@@lilypond[options,go,here]@{ YOUR LILYPOND CODE @}
@@lilypondfile[options,go,here]@{@var{filename}@}
@end example

When lilypond-book is run on it, this results in a texinfo file. We
show two simple examples here.  First a complete block:

@example
@@lilypond[staffsize=26]
  c' d' e' f' g'2 g'
@@end lilypond
@end example

@noindent
produces

@lilypond
  c' d' e' f' g'2 g'
@end lilypond

Then the short version:

@example
@@lilypond[staffsize=11]@{<c' e' g'>@}
@end example

@noindent
produces

@lilypond[staffsize=11]{ <c' e' g'> }

When producing texinfo, lilypond-book also generates bitmaps of the
music, so you can make a HTML document with embedded music.

@c @TeX{} in node name seems to barf
@node Integrating LaTeX and music
@section Integrating LaTeX and music


For La@TeX{}, music is entered using

@example
\begin[options,go,here]@{lilypond@}
  YOUR LILYPOND CODE
\end@{lilypond@}
@end example

@example
\lilypondfile[options,go,here]@{@var{filename}@}
@end example

@noindent
or

@example
\lilypond@{ YOUR LILYPOND CODE @}
@end example

Running lilypond-book yields a file that can be processed with
La@TeX{}.


We show some examples here:

@example
\begin[staffsize=26]@{lilypond@}
  c' d' e' f' g'2 g'2
\end@{lilypond@}
@end example

@noindent
produces

@lilypond[staffsize=26]
  c' d' e' f' g'2 g'2
@end lilypond

Then the short version:

@example
\lilypond[staffsize=11]@{<c' e' g'>@}
@end example

@noindent
produces

@lilypond[staffsize=11]{<c' e' g'>}

The linewidth of the music will be adjust by examining the commands in
the document preamble, the part of the document before
@code{\begin@{document@}}: @command{lilypond-book} sends these to
La@TeX{} to find out how wide the text is. The line width variable for
the music fragments are adjusted to the text width.

After @code{\begin@{document@}}, the column changing commands
@code{\onecolumn}, @code{\twocolumn} commands
@ignore 
and the
@code{multicols} environment from the multicol package
@end ignore
are also interpreted.

@cindex titling and lilypond-book
@cindex lilypond-book and titling
@cindex @code{\header} in La@TeX{} documents

The titling from the @code{\header} section of the fragments can be
imported by adding the following to the top of the La@TeX{} file:

@example
\input titledefs.tex
\def\preLilyPondExample@{\def\mustmakelilypondtitle@{@}@}
@end example

The music will be surrounded by @code{\preLilyPondExample} and
@code{\postLilyPondExample}, which are defined to be empty by default.

@cindex outline fonts
@cindex type1 fonts
@cindex dvips
@cindex invoking dvips

For printing the LaTeX document, you will need to use dvips. For
producing PostScript with scalable fonts, add the following options to
the dvips command line:
@example
 -Ppdf -u +lilypond.map
@end example 

@noindent
PDF can then be produced with @code{ps2pdf}.

@cindex international characters
@cindex latin1

LilyPond does not use the LaTeX font handling scheme for lyrics and text
markups, so if you use characters in your lilypond-book
documents that are not included in the standard US-ASCII character set,
include @code{\usepackage[latin1]@{inputenc@}} in the file 
header but do not include @code{\usepackage[[T1]@{fontenc@}}. Character
sets other than latin1 are not supported directly but may be handled by
explicitly specifying the @code{font-name} property in LilyPond and
using the corresponding LaTeX packages. Please consult the mailing list
for more details.





@node Integrating HTML and music
@section Integrating HTML and music

Music is entered using

@example
<lilypond relative=1 verbatim>
  \key c \minor r8 c16 b c8 g as c16 b c8 d | g,4
</lilypond>
@end example

@noindent
of which lilypond-book will produce a HTML with appropriate image tags for the
music fragments:
 
@example
<lilypond relative=1 verbatim>
  \key c \minor r8 c16 b c8 g as c16 b c8 d | g,4
</lilypond>
@end example

@lilypond[relative=1]
  \key c \minor r8 c16 b c8 g as c16 b c8 d | g,4
@end lilypond

For inline pictures, use @code{<lilypond ... />} syntax, e.g.
@example
Some music in <lilypond a b c/> a line of text.
@end example

A special feature not (yet) available in other output formats, is the
@code{<lilypondfile>} tag, for example,
@example
  <lilypondfile>trip.ly</lilypondfile>
@end example
This runs @file{trip.ly} through @code{lilypond} (see also
@ref{Invoking lilypond}), and substitutes a preview image in the
output. The image links to a separate HTML file, so clicking it will
take the viewer to a menu, with links to images, midi and printouts.

@cindex titling in THML
@cindex preview image
@cindex thumbnail

@node Music fragment options
@section Music fragment options

The commands for lilypond-book have room to specify one or more of the
following options:

@table @code
@item verbatim
@var{contents} is copied into the source, enclosed in a verbatim block;
followed by any text given with the @code{intertext} option; then
the actual music is displayed.  This option does not work with
the short version of the music blocks:

@code{ @@lilypond@{ CONTENTS @} } and @code{ \lilypond@{ CONTENTS @} }

@item filename=@var{filename}
name the file (for @code{printfilename} option). The argument should
be unquoted. 

@item staffsize=POINTS
@lilypond[staffsize=31.41592658]
\relative c' {
  r16 c[ d e] f[ d e c] g'8[ c] b[\prall c] |
  d16[ g, a b] c[ a b g] d'8[ g f\prall g]
}
@end lilypond

@item raggedright
produces naturally spaced lines (i.e., @code{raggedright = ##t}); this
works well for small music fragments.

@item linewidth=@var{size}\\@var{unit}
sets linewidth to @var{size}, where @var{unit} = cm, mm, in, or pt.
This option affects LilyPond output, not the text layout.

@item notime
prevents printing time signature.

@item fragment
@item nofragment
overrides @command{lilypond-book} auto detection of what type of code is
in the LilyPond block, voice contents, or complete code.

@item indent=@var{size}\\@var{unit}
sets indentation of the first music system to @var{size},
where @var{unit} = cm, mm, in, or pt.  This option affects LilyPond,
not the text layout.  For single-line fragments, the default is to
use no indentation.

For example
@example
  \begin[indent=\\5cm,raggedright]@{lilypond@}
  ...
  \end@{lilypond@}
@end example


@item noindent
sets indentation of the first music system to zero.  This option
affects LilyPond, not the text layout.

@item texidoc
Includes the @code{texidoc} field, if defined in the file. This is
only for Texinfo output.

In Texinfo, the music fragment is normally preceded by the
@code{texidoc} field from the @code{\header}. The LilyPond test
documents are composed from small @file{.ly} files in this way:

@example
  \header @{
    texidoc = "this file demonstrates a single note"
  @}
  \score @{ \notes @{ c'4 @} @} 
@end example

@item relative, relative=@var{N}
uses relative octave mode.  By default, notes are specified relative
to central C.  The optional integer argument specifies the octave of the
starting note, where the default @code{1} is central C.
@end table


@node Invoking lilypond-book
@section Invoking lilypond-book


Running @command{lilypond-book} generates lots of small files that
LilyPond will process.  To avoid all that garbage in the source
directory, it is advisable to change to a temporary directory first:
@example
cd out && lilypond-book ../yourfile.tex
@end example

@noindent
or to use the @option{--output} command line option, and change to
that directory before running La@TeX{} or @file{makeinfo}:

@example
lilypond-book --output=out yourfile.lytex
cd out && latex yourfile.tex
@end example


@command{lilypond-book} accepts the following command line options:

@table @code
@item @option{-f @var{format}}, @option{--format=@var{format}}
Specify the document type to process: @code{html}, @code{latex} or
@code{texi} (the default).  @command{lilypond-book} usually figures this
out automatically.

The @code{texi} document type produces a texinfo file with music
fragments in the DVI output only. For getting images in the HTML
version,  the format 
@code{texi-html} must be used.

@item @option{-F @var{filter}}, @option{--filter=@var{filter}}
Pipe snippets through @var{filter}.

For example:
@example
    lilypond-book --filter='convert-ly --from=2.0.0' my-book.tely
@end example

@item @option{--help}
Print a short help message.

@item @option{-I @var{dir}}, @option{--include=@var{dir}}
Add @var{DIR} to the include path.

@item @option{-o @var{dir}}, @option{--output=@var{dir}}
Place generated files in @var{dir}.

@item @option{-P @var{process}}, @option{--process=@var{COMMAND}}
Process lilypond snippets using @var{command}.  The default command is
@var{lilypond-bin}.

@item @option{--verbose}
Be verbose.

@item @option{--version}
Print version information.
@end table

For La@TeX{} input, the file to give to La@TeX{} has extension
@file{.latex}.  Texinfo input will be written to a file with extension
@file{.texi}.



@section Bugs

The La@TeX{} @code{\includeonly@{...@}} command is ignored.

The Texinfo command @code{pagesize} is not interpreted. Almost all
La@TeX{} commands that change margins and line widths are ignored.

Only the first @code{\score} of a LilyPond block is processed.

@c CHECKME--FIXME
The size of a music block is limited to 1.5 KB, due to technical
problems with the Python regular expression engine.  For longer files,
use @code{\lilypondfile}.

@command{lilypond-book} processes all music fragments in one big run.
The state of the GUILE interpreter is not reset between fragments;
this means that changes made to global GUILE definitions, e.g. done
with @code{set!} or @code{set-cdr!}, can leak from one fragment into
the next fragment.