j.asal wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I want to write a music theory book with LyX. For musical examples I would
> like to use Lilypond, but there seems to be no support for including and
> displaying Lilypond snippets (apart from importing whole Lilypond files).
> I know that one could use lilypond-book to postprocess files with embedded
> lilypond code, but then you don't have any preview and you can't use LyX
> to 'compile' the latex file. Any ideas/suggestions?
> 
> Best regards,
> Johannes Asal

I know nothing about Lilypond but have you looked at the insert->external
object way. There is also a KDE frontend to Lilypond called Frescobaldi
that looks nice from the screenshots.

Cheers,
Charles 
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