Re: TeXShop and Lilypond

[Mats Bengtsson]

Walter Hofmeister wrote:
>   
> Michael,
>     Check here: http://www.dimi.uniud.it/vitacolo/freesoftware.html
>
>     Thanks to Nicola Vitacolonna for this bit of software.
>
> Scroll down the page about half-way to the Desktop Publishing section. At
> the bottom of the section you will see a link with instructions to get the
> Lilypond engine working with TexShop. Note that point and click does NOT
> work with TexShop (it is not compatible). Make sure that TexShop is set to
> save files in UTF-8 Unicode format or Lilypond will choke.
>   
Won't LaTeX choke on the LaTeX parts of the documents then?
Unless you have a UTF-8 capable LaTeX, the best solution I see is
to write the LilyPond code in separate files (saved in UTF-8) that then
are included into the LaTeX document (saved in ISO 8859-1 or whatever)
using \lilypondfile{...}.

Nicola, I took a quick look into
http://www.dimi.uniud.it/vitacolo/download/software/latex/Lilypond-LaTeX.engine.txt
and noticed that you use latex + dvips + ps2pdf to process the file. I 
hope you are
aware of the possibility to instead use pdflatex:
lilypond-book -o out --pdf myfile.lytex
cd out
pdflatex myfile.tex

Since TexShop seems to use pdflatex by default, this seems like a 
preferable solution.

I have added a few lines of information about this LilyPond support in 
TexShop
in the section on Editor support in the manual.

  /Mats