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< Graphics | Using Graphics > ((Please leave this page orphaned until LilyPond integration is ready!))

LilyPond is a great music engraver, and this page is for future LilyPond integration in ConTeXt. At the moment you can use LilyPond's PDFs as graphics just fine.

Setup

Snippets

There are some notes \LilyPond{ \relative{bes a c b} } embedded in this line.

Sections

E.g. for a songbook you want to place big chunks of LilyPond output (i.e. note staffs) in your text. It behaves like any other graphics, especially similar to embedded MetaPost code:

\section{A Tune}

\startLilyPond
\relative {
	\repeat volta 2 {
		\partial 4 e4 |
		a2 c4 d |
		e2 f4 e |
		d2. c4 |
		b4. c8 d4 e |
		a,2 c4 d |
		e2 f4 e |
		g,2 a |
		\partial 2. b2. |
	}
	\repeat volta 2 {
		\partial 4 r4 |
		f' g f d |
		e f e c |
		a b c d |
		e2. e4 |
		f g f8 e d4 |
		e f e c |
		a c b8 a g4 |
	}
	\alternative {
		{ \partial 2. g2. }
		{ \partial 2. a2. }
	}
}
\stopLilyPond

There's nothing to say about this tune yet; my friend heard it from Lunasa.

Developer's Corner

I need to figure out how LilyPond's LaTeX integration in lilypond-book works. It is a different approach: LilyPond preprocesses the LaTeX code, replaces LilyPond code with images and runs LaTeX. Instead with ConTeXt, texexec would do this preprocessing step, avoiding the need to run different programs yourself. I guess I can copy the needed setup (LilyPond stub file) from lilypond-book (a messy Python script).

I don't yet know how to prepare \setupLilyPond. It should be able to:

  • set the text font (default should be ConTeXt's bodyfont instead of LilyPond's)
  • set line width
  • set staff and text size
  • access most other layout parameters

To remember:

  • see LilyPond Docs!
  • How do we handle version/syntax changes of LilyPond?
  •  !! How do we get clean PDFs (EPS for DVI mode), without anything around the staffs? Is lilypond-book's setup enough?

--Hraban 10:51, 4 Aug 2005 (CEST)