Re: lilypond book makefile

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "Jesse" == Jesse Engle <address@hidden> writes:

    Jesse> I've recently installed TeTeX on my Mac, and I'm excited to
    Jesse> begin using the TeX typesetting software in conjunction
    Jesse> with Lilypond. My problem is that, because `lilypond-book`,
    Jesse> `latex` and `dvips` are used to produce the output, I'm not
    Jesse> sure how to set up the Makefile. Do any of you have a
    Jesse> makefile for this type of thing laying around?

Here's the most straightforward Makefile:


%.pdf:  %.lytex *.ly
         lilypond-book --pdf --output=$* *$.lytex
         cd $*;pdflatex $*;cp $*.pdf ..

This uses pdflatex instead of latex and dvips and ps2pdf, and runs a
lot faster.  

Here's the equivalent if there's some reason you actually want to run
dvips, etc.:

%.pdf:  %.lytex *.ly
         lilypond-book --output=out --psfonts $*.lytex
         cd out;latex $*.tex;dvips $(DVIPSOPTS) -h $*.psfonts -o ../$*.ps $*.dvi
         ps2pdf $*.ps $*.pdf

As a couple of people have mentioned, most of us using lilypond-book
for serious work do something a bit more complicated than that.  The
one I actually use has scripts to workaround a couple of bugs in
lilypond-book:

        Changing included files doesn't trigger rebuilding the
        snippets based on the including files.

        For two-sided printing, the alignment on the page isn't
        correct.

And of course, if I'm doing something with a bibliography, I have to
make it more complicated yet.

If you're interested in knowing about how any of that modifies the
Makefile, let me know.

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