From lyx-users  Tue Mar 10 11:01:15 2009
From: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting () hist ! no>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:01:15 +0000
To: lyx-users
Subject: Re: Lilypond integration
Message-Id: <49B6487B.7050606 () hist ! no>
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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?

I created what little support there is for lilypond in LyX. Mostly 
because it was easy and interesting to do.  It'd be interesting to know 
more about what kind of lilypond support that actually is useful.

Currently, LyX can use lilypond files that takes up a page or less. This 
because LyX runs the file through the lilypond software for you, obtains 
a pdf or postscript file, and includes that as a graphical object.

This lets you typeset pieces of music that is less than a page each, and 
get them into the LyX document. Maybe it is also possible to create 
small examples such as a single chord and include it in the middle of a 
line of text. I haven't actually tried that, but it ought to work.

The way to do this:
1. Create a LyX document and a lilypond file
2. In LyX: "Insert->File->External Material"
3. In the external material dialog, change "template" to LilyPond",
    and insert the correct filename.

Your music should now appear when you print the LyX file or export a PDF 
file.

Please let me know if there are problems with this.

Supporting lilypond-book would need a different approach, because the 
processing is different.

Helge Hafting