\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article} \begin{document} \subsection{LaTeX comments} This is a line with lilypond code after the comment char % \lilypond{\context Voice <>} % \lilypond{\context Voice <>} If you do not see any music above this line, then lilypond-book is handling latex comments pretty well :-) The following snippet is preceded by a comment that would start a lilypond environment %%\begin{lilypond} \begin{lilypond}[staffsize=11,fragment] \context Voice <> \end{lilypond} A single-line comment inside a fragment does not confuse lilypond-book: \begin{lilypond}[fragment] c d e %\score \end{lilypond} \end{document}