lilypond-book (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

lilypond-book – manual page for lilypond-book 2.12.2

SYNOPSIS

lilypond-book [OPTION]… FILE

DESCRIPTION

Process LilyPond snippets in hybrid HTML, LaTeX, texinfo or DocBook document.

OPTIONS

-F, –filter=FILTER

pipe snippets through FILTER [default: `convert-ly -n -‘]

-f, –format=FORMAT

use output format FORMAT (texi [default], texi-html, latex, html, docbook)

-h, –help

show this help and exit

-I, –include=DIR

add DIR to include path

–info-images-dir=DIR

format Texinfo output so that Info will look for images of music in DIR

–latex-program=PROG

run executable PROG instead of latex

–left-padding=PAD

pad left side of music to align music inspite of uneven bar numbers (in mm)

-o, –output=DIR

write output to DIR

–skip-lily-check

do not fail if no lilypond output is found

–skip-png-check

do not fail if no PNG images are found for EPS files

–lily-output-dir=DIR

write lily-XXX files to DIR, link into –output dir

-P, –process=COMMAND

process ly_files using COMMAND FILE…

–pdf

create PDF files for use with PDFTeX

-V, –verbose

be verbose

–version

show version number and exit

-w, –warranty

show warranty and copyright

EXAMPLES

$ lilypond-book --filter="tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'" BOOK
$ lilypond-book -F "convert-ly --no-version --from=2.0.0 -" BOOK
$ lilypond-book --process='lilypond -I include' BOOK

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs via http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.bugs

SEE ALSO

The full documentation for lilypond-book is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and lilypond-book programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info lilypond-book

should give you access to the complete manual.

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