From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 23:46:42 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (Example applications): X-Git-Tag: release/1.7.24~23 X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8b303a976f79c3f94676d79c9cee3ef0b760a229;p=lilypond.git (Example applications): add note about databases and lilypond-book. --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 48aad8899e..412337b03b 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ 2003-07-02 Han-Wen Nienhuys + * Documentation/user/introduction.itely (Example applications): + add note about databases and lilypond-book. + * input/test/volta.ly: remove file * input/regression/volta-broken-left-edge.ly: simplify file diff --git a/Documentation/user/introduction.itely b/Documentation/user/introduction.itely index a6fefdf8d0..19e7b4c3cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/user/introduction.itely +++ b/Documentation/user/introduction.itely @@ -47,9 +47,9 @@ design, and how this approach affects you as a user. @cindex Batch @cindex UNIX -LilyPond is a @emph{batch} program. To use, one enters commands in a -file, and the program is run on that file. The output is produced -without requiring any user-interaction. +LilyPond is a @emph{batch} program. To use it, one enters commands in a +file, and runs the program on that file. The output is produced without +requiring any further interaction. When we started developing LilyPond, we were still studying at the university. We were interested in music notation, not as publishers @@ -392,10 +392,21 @@ a lead sheet. The following example combines some more exotic uses of notation -@lilypondfile{screech-boink.ly} +@lilypondfile{screech-boink.ly} +The fragments shown above have all been written by hand, but that is not +a requirement. Since the formatting engine is mostly automatic, it can +serve as an output means for other programs that manipulate music. It +can also be used to convert databases of musical fragments to images for +use on websites on multimedia presentations. + +This manual also shows an application: the input format is plain text, +and can therefore be easily embedded in other text-based formats, such +as La@TeX{}, HTML or in the case of this manual, Texinfo. By means of a +special program, the input fragments can be replaced by music images in +the resulting PostScript or HTML output files. This makes it easy to +mix music and text in documents. -TODO: show automated formatting example. @node About this manual