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12.6 Invoking lilypond-book

lilypond-book produces a file with one of the following extensions: .tex, .texi, or .html, depending on the output format. Both .tex and .texi files need further processing.

lilypond-book can also create a PSFONTS file, which is required by dvips to produce Postscript and PDF files. You can call this file whatever you want as long as you refer to the same file when you call dvips.

To produce PDF output from the lilypond-book file (here called yourfile.lytex), you should do

lilypond-book --psfonts yourfile.lytex
latex yourfile.tex
dvips -o -h yourfile.psfonts -Ppdf yourfile.dvi
ps2pdf yourfile.ps

To produce a Texinfo document (in any output format), follow the normal procedures for Texinfo (this is, either call texi2dvi or makeinfo, depending on the output format you want to create). See the documentation of Texinfo for further details.

lilypond-book accepts the following command line options:

-f format
--format=format
Specify the document type to process: html, latex, or texi (the default). If this option is missing, lilypond-book tries to detect the format automatically.

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

[Note: Currently, texi is the same as texi-html.]

-F filter
--filter=filter
Pipe snippets through filter. lilypond-book will not –filter and –process at the same time.

Example:

     lilypond-book --filter='convert-ly --from=2.0.0 -' my-book.tely

-h
--help
Print a short help message.
-I dir
--include=dir
Add dir to the include path.
-o dir
--output=dir
Place generated files in directory dir. Running lilypond-book generates lots of small files that LilyPond will process. To avoid all that garbage in the source directory use the --output command line option, and change to that directory before running latex or makeinfo:
     lilypond-book --output=out yourfile.lytex
     cd out
     ...

-P process
--process=command
Process LilyPond snippets using command. The default command is lilypond. lilypond-book will not –filter and –process at the same time.
--psfonts
extract all PostScript fonts into file.psfonts for dvips. This is necessary for dvips -h file.psfonts.
-V
--verbose
Be verbose.
-v
--version
Print version information.

Bugs

The Texinfo command @pagesizes is not interpreted. Similarly, LaTeX commands that change margins and line widths after the preamble are ignored.

Only the first \score of a LilyPond block is processed.

This page is for LilyPond-2.6.3 (stable-branch).

Report errors to <bug-lilypond@gnu.org>.

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