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lilypond-book - manual page for lilypond-book 2.18.2

lilypond-book [OPTION]... FILE

Process LilyPond snippets in hybrid HTML, LaTeX, texinfo or DocBook document.

-F, --filter=FILTER: pipe snippets through FILTER [default: `convert-ly -n -']
-f, --format=FORMAT: use output format FORMAT (texi [default], texi-html, latex, html, docbook)
-h, --help: show this help and exit
-I, --include=DIR: add DIR to include path
--info-images-dir=DIR: format Texinfo output so that Info will look for images of music in DIR
--left-padding=PAD: pad left side of music to align music inspite of uneven bar numbers (in mm)
--lily-loglevel=LOGLEVEL: Print lilypond log messages according to LOGLEVEL
--lily-output-dir=DIR: write lily-XXX files to DIR, link into --output dir
--load-custom-package=PACKAGE: Load the additional python PACKAGE (containing e.g. a custom output format)
-l, --loglevel=LOGLEVEL: Print log messages according to LOGLEVEL (NONE, ERROR, WARNING, PROGRESS (default), DEBUG)
-o, --output=DIR: write output to DIR
-P, --process=COMMAND: process ly_files using COMMAND FILE...
--redirect-lilypond-output: Redirect the lilypond output
-s, --safe: Compile snippets in safe mode
--skip-lily-check: do not fail if no lilypond output is found
--skip-png-check: do not fail if no PNG images are found for EPS files
--use-source-file-names: write snippet output files with the same base name as their source file
-V, --verbose: be verbose
--version: show version number and exit
-w, --warranty: show warranty and copyright

--latex-program=PROG: run executable PROG instead of latex, or in case --pdf option is set instead of pdflatex
--texinfo-program=PROG: run executable PROG instead of texi2pdf
--pdf: create PDF files for use with PDFTeX

: $ lilypond-book --filter="tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'" BOOK
$ lilypond-book -F "convert-ly --no-version --from=2.0.0 -" BOOK
$ lilypond-book --process='lilypond -I include' BOOK