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4 `lilypond-book': Integrating text and music
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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, yielding PostScript output or PNG images, 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 Note: Command-line usage.  If
you have MacOS 10.3 or 10.4 and you have trouble running
`lilypond-book', see Note: Setup for MacOS X.

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

An example of a musicological document

Integrating music and text

Music fragment options

Invoking lilypond-book

Filename extensions

Alternate methods of mixing text and music