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3 Running lilypond-book

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 (in PostScript, PDF, or PNG format), and those are included into a LaTeX or HTML document.

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 is a separate program from lilypond itself, and is run on the command line; for more information, see Command-line usage.

This procedure may be applied to LaTeX, HTML, Texinfo or DocBook documents.

3.1 An example of a musicological document
3.2 Integrating music and text
3.3 Music fragment options
3.4 Invoking lilypond-book
3.5 Filename extensions
3.6 Parallel execution
3.7 lilypond-book templates
3.8 Sharing the table of contents
3.9 Alternative methods of mixing text and music