Re: Lua/LaTeX assistance

[Knut Petersen]

On 06.11.2013 09:34, Urs Liska wrote:
> Am 06.11.2013 07:05, schrieb Joshua Nichols:
> > I guess in the end I didn't understand anything at all, and my hard head saw LaTeX and 
> > didn't see "preprocessed with lilypond-book."
>
> Maybe this is a good opportunity to hook in.
> If there is anybody out there experienced with LaTeX and Lua I'd be glad he/she 
> would get in touch with me.
>
> I have written a LaTeX package 'musicexamples' 
> (http://www.openlilylib.org/musicexamples) which is currently useful but not 
> spectacularly unique. I'm using it for managing music examples in my LaTeX 
> documents.
> It's on my agenda however to extend this package through Lua (although the new 
> functionality would of course be restricted to LuaLaTeX) in order to accept 
> embedded LilyPond code like lilypond-book does.

For bigger projects I prefer separate files, but maybe the attached file is 
useful for your project.
It demonstrates how to include a lilypond file in a lualatex document.

   lualatex --shell-escape lilyinluatex.tex

will generate a lilypond file, call lillypond and pdfcrop to generate a proper 
pdf and include it in lilyinluatex.pdf
Lilypond lyrics font and size exactly match the default TeX font.

> It's not the explicit intention to make a verbatim copy of lilypond-book, but 
> moving the functionality _inside_ the LaTeX compilation process would offer at 
> least the following fixes for problems that have so far led me not to use 
> lilypond-book:
>
> - You can compile the document at any time directly, no need for preprocessing 
> and intermediate .tex files
> - You don't have to chose between cluttering your working directory with 
> intermediate files
>   or causing relative-path problems by using the -out option
> - You have reliable access to the _currently effective_ text width, e.g. in 
> multicolumn context
>
> I know that even without any prior Lua experience I would be able to dive into that and somehow manage to come up with something. 

lualatex is a good engine as it has native utf8 support.  I don't think that 
you do need lua, TeX is enough

cu,
 Knut

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