Re: lilypondbood package useful?

[Francisco Vila]

2013/1/16 Francisco Vila <address@hidden>:
> I use lilypond-book a lot and this problem is solved if you build your
> document using make or a bash script that does all the work. The
> script can create an out/ folder if it doesn't exist, tell
> lilypond-book to output all to out/, copy all needed files to out/,
> run latex inside out/ and copy the resulting PDF back to your source
> directory. You need to write a list of copy-needing files in the
> makefile/script, but then all reduces to <uparrow><enter> to launch
> latest command in history of terminal.
>
> Especially if you have many short snippets and/or want your code to ve
> verbatim visible. And there is no better way if you want to modify a
> snippet by _only_ modifying its lilypond code, in a single place, and
> you want everything else to be made automatically.  Also, look at our
> manuals: they just could not be made by another method, in my opinion.
>
> For openoffice/libreoffice users, the ooo-lilypond extension is also
> better than inserting images by hand. See
>
>   http://vimeo.com/39419265 (duration: 1 min)
>
>  and
>
>   http://vimeo.com/39419266 (duration: 20 sec)

Oh, and there are active frames of Scribus DTP program, that store
lilypond code and call lilypond on-the-fly

-- 
Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
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