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Re: Footers/headers and line breaks


From: Cameron Horsburgh
Subject: Re: Footers/headers and line breaks
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 07:47:12 +1100
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cordilow (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:
> Oh,
> 
> That's awesome!  About the HTML, with Lilypond-book, I mean.
> 
> Wow--that makes me happy.  All you have to do is surround your lilypond file 
> in  and then type something like lilypond-book -o thePathOfOurputPlusFileName 
> nameOfFile.
> Of course, you have to change the extension to html instead of ly.  Anyway, 
> then it makes a webpage of your html file, using a png image.
> 
> Anyway, that is intensely cool . . . but I had something a little different 
> in mind.  The only difference is, I want a PDF file out of the HTML file 
> afterward (provided I edit the HTML to set up the text how I want).  I mean, 
> I just want to use HTML code for the layout, not the actual file format.
> 
> With this, however, I can still format things the way I want--it's just not 
> all compact into one file in the end--is there a way to do this?  I don't 
> care whether it's pdf or png, though.  Thanks, by the way.


It sounds like you need to learn Latex or Texinfo--these are markup
languages (not unlike HTML) that can produce pdf files more appropriate
for printing, and can be used by lilypond-book in the same way.

www.tug.org might be a good place to start, but others may have better
suggestions. What operating system are you using?

--Cam






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