Re: Reverse Lilypond Book...

[David Kastrup]

Sami <address@hidden> writes:

> This has probably been asked before, but I haven't found it anywhere, so I
> ask it myself. Excuse any repetition, and please direct me there if it
> exists and you can find it easily.
>
> With lilypond-book and co, what I understood is that one writes a LaTeX
> document with lilypond snippets. Essentially, it is a text document, and has
> some musical examples. LaTeX is the boss.
>
> What if we want to do the exact opposite? Like, a music book with snippets
> of TeX or LaTex-formatted text. An ideal situation would be for prefaces,
> contents, etc. to be in LaTex, or TeX or whatever, and then the music in
> lilypond, and all of this inside the lilypond file.
>
> I suppose that each LaTeX snippet would be a small LaTeX document with its
> own preamble etc, and most page-formatting variables dictated by lilypond,
> which would do the analogous of what lilypond-book does, but in reverse.
> Such a case would be great if one wants to write a music book, but using the
> Tex text functionality for any big chunks of text, like cover pages,
> prefaces, contents, etc.
>
> Is any of this possible?

Probably the easiest way to achieve embedded TeX is to use a version of
LilyPond in the vicinity of 2.0.

Instead of mulling over the problem whether to run LilyPond first, or
TeX first, it would make more sense to run them synchronously in order
to get to coordinated page break decisions.

-- 
David Kastrup