Re: New to Lilypond - including score in LaTeX

[Br. Samuel Springuel]

You have three options:

1) lilypond-book: This is a script that comes with LilyPond which 
enables you to pseudo-include lilypond scores into TeX documents.  It 
preprocesses the document to extract the lilypond relavent bits, runs 
them through lilypond, and then creates a new TeX document where the 
lilypond relavent bits have been replaced by \includegraphics commands.

For more information see:

http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/usage/lilypond_002dbook

If going this route and using TeXShop or TeXworks (on Linux or Mac) you 
might find the LilyPond engines for TeXShop useful for streamlining your 
workflow:

https://users.dimi.uniud.it/~nicola.vitacolonna/software/lilypond-texshop/

2) lyluatex: This is a luatex package which duplicates the basic 
functionality (but not all features) of lilypond-book.  Unlike 
lilypond-book, this is not a preprocessor, but rather uses Lua scripts 
to shunt lilypond scores off to lilypond on the fly and then include 
them back into the original TeX document.

For more information see:

https://github.com/jperon/lyluatex

3) manual method: You can also simply run lilypond as normal (or 
possibly with settings that result in png output instead of pdf) on 
input files and then include the resulting scores in your TeX documents 
using packages like pdfpages (for full page inclusions) or graphix (for 
including smaller images).

Personally, I use method 2.

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Br. Samuel, OSB
(R. Padraic Springuel)

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