On 21 juin 2012, at 01:50, Sami wrote:

> 
> Hi all!
> 
> 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?

Nicolas Sceaux is the master of this sort of thing.

http://nicolas.sceaux.free.fr/

He's very generous about sharing his code, so I'm sure you can contact him for 
ideas.

Cheers,
MS


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