Re: Png ouput quality was RE: .tex in texniccentre

[Graham Percival]

Please keep lilypond traffic on the mailist, so that other people can
benefit from the answers


On 14-Feb-05, at 9:54 PM, Anton Woldhek wrote:
> > If you want to have short (or long!) examples within a text
> > document, then please read the section about lilypond-book;
> > that's exactly what it's for.
>
> Yes but id like to stay within LaTeX, im on windows using 
> texniccentre.  The
> solution im currently using is export to pdf, then open the pdf in 
> GIMP edit
> it a bit, then save the part as png there, then it looks pretty nice.

That's exactly what lilypond-book does... except that it automates the
insertion and whatnot.

> I looked at lilypond-book, although it looks really nice it would 
> complicate
> live for me I think. I'd really just prefer to \input the ps, pdf or 
> TeX
> into LaTeX, unfortunatly this doesn't seem possible (esp with small
> examples).

Here, I'll show you the steps:

%%%%% input file: simply.lytex.  Run "lilypond-book simple.lytex"
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{graphics}
\begin{document}

Normal LaTeX text.

\begin{lilypond}
\relative c''{ a4 b c d }
\end{lilypond}

\end{document}

%%%%% next file: simple.tex.  Run "latex simple.tex"
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{graphics}
\begin{document}

Normal LaTeX text.

{%
\parindent 0pt
address@hidden
\ifx\preLilyPondExample \undefined
  \relax
\else
  \preLilyPondExample
\fi
\def\lilypondbook{}%
\input lily-203923813-systems.tex
\ifx\postLilyPondExample \undefined
  \relax
\else
  \postLilyPondExample
\fi
}

\end{document}

%%%%  other steps: normal latex stuff.  (dvi, ps, pdf)


I don't know what texniccentre is like, but I'm pretty certain that
lilypond-book is exactly what you're after.

Cheers,
- Graham