Re: \displayLilyMusic function

[James Lowe]

Sorry to post a reply to myself.

The thing here is that if you use the Lilypond.exe you DON'T get the 
output (apart from the notes being displayed in the PDF) so it seems I 
need to change the doc entry from

> Displaying a music expression in LilyPond notation can be done using the music 
> function
> \displayLilyMusic. For example,

to something like

> Displaying a music expression in LilyPond notation can be done with the music 
> function
> \displayLilyMusic, but only when using the command line. For example

Then the section is ok for Windows.

Regards

James



James Lowe wrote:
> Thanks,
>
> Then I guess if you run LilyPond at the CLI (on Windows anyway) with 
> just this statement in the *.ly file you get
>
> > C:\Users\jlowe\Desktop>lilypond test.ly
> > GNU LilyPond 2.13.10
> > Processing `test.ly'
> > Parsing...
> > { a, cis e fis g }
> >
> > Interpreting music...
> > Preprocessing graphical objects...
> > Solving 1 page-breaking chunks...[1: 1 pages]
> > Drawing systems...
> > Layout output to `test.ps'...
> > Converting to `./test.pdf'...
>
> If I run it as
>
> C:\Users\jlowe\Desktop>lilypond test.ly >display.txt
>
> Then I get a display.txt file with *just* the '{ a, cis e fis g }' 
> stated (including the braces).
>
> If this is the same for Linux then I could remove the 'what happens 
> under windows' comment in the itely file (as a patch)
>
> James
>
>
> Graham Percival wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:16 PM, James Lowe <address@hidden> 
> > wrote:
> > > >   By default, LilyPond will print these messages to the console 
> > > > along with
> > > > all the other mes-
> > > > sages. To split up these messages and save the results of 
> > > > \display{STUFF},
> > > > redirect the output
> > > > to a file.
> > > > lilypond file.ly >display.txt
> > > Now this all seems to work however I always get a PDF file created 
> > > even if
> > > the *.ly file contains
> > >
> > > \version "2.13.6"
> > >
> > > {
> > >  \displayLilyMusic \transpose c a, { c4 e g a bes }
> > > }
> >
> > This is correct.  If you look at the console (umm... this would depend
> > on the way you run lilypond, I guess?), you should see a bunch of
> > extra text that you wouldn't see if the \displayLilyMusic wasn't
> > there.
> >
> > The >display.txt  just saves that extra text into a separate file,
> > instead of forcing people to scroll back through their console output
> > to find the stuff they want to see.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > - Graham
>
>
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