lilypond-book(1)
manual page for lilypond-book 2.18.2
SYNOPSIS
lilypond-book
[OPTION]... FILE
DESCRIPTION
Process LilyPond snippets in hybrid HTML, LaTeX, texinfo or DocBook document.
OPTIONS
- -F, --filter=FILTER
-
pipe snippets through FILTER [default: `convert-ly -n
-']
- -f, --format=FORMAT
-
use output format FORMAT (texi [default], texi-html,
latex, html, docbook)
- -h, --help
-
show this help and exit
- -I, --include=DIR
-
add DIR to include path
- --info-images-dir=DIR
-
format Texinfo output so that Info will look for
images of music in DIR
- --left-padding=PAD
-
pad left side of music to align music inspite of
uneven bar numbers (in mm)
- --lily-loglevel=LOGLEVEL
-
Print lilypond log messages according to LOGLEVEL
- --lily-output-dir=DIR
-
write lily-XXX files to DIR, link into --output dir
- --load-custom-package=PACKAGE
-
Load the additional python PACKAGE (containing e.g. a
custom output format)
- -l, --loglevel=LOGLEVEL
-
Print log messages according to LOGLEVEL (NONE, ERROR,
WARNING, PROGRESS (default), DEBUG)
- -o, --output=DIR
-
write output to DIR
- -P, --process=COMMAND
-
process ly_files using COMMAND FILE...
- --redirect-lilypond-output
-
Redirect the lilypond output
- -s, --safe
-
Compile snippets in safe mode
- --skip-lily-check
-
do not fail if no lilypond output is found
- --skip-png-check
-
do not fail if no PNG images are found for EPS files
- --use-source-file-names
-
write snippet output files with the same base name as
their source file
- -V, --verbose
-
be verbose
- --version
-
show version number and exit
- -w, --warranty
-
show warranty and copyright
Options only for the latex and texinfo backends:
- --latex-program=PROG
-
run executable PROG instead of latex, or in case --pdf
option is set instead of pdflatex
- --texinfo-program=PROG
-
run executable PROG instead of texi2pdf
- --pdf
-
create PDF files for use with PDFTeX
EXAMPLES
-
$ lilypond-book --filter="tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'" BOOK
$ lilypond-book -F "convert-ly --no-version --from=2.0.0 -" BOOK
$ lilypond-book --process='lilypond -I include' BOOK
