The default output format is LaTeX, which should be run through LaTeX. Using the option -f (or --format) other output formats can be selected also, but none of them work reliably.
Now the music is output system by system (a `system' is a single line
from the score, consisting of staves belonging together). From
TeX's point of view, a system is an \hbox
which contains a
lowered \vbox
so that it is centered vertically on the baseline
of the text. Between systems, \interscoreline
is inserted
vertically to have stretchable space. The horizontal dimension of the
\hbox
is given by the linewidth
parameter from
LilyPond's \paper
block.
After the last system LilyPond emits a stronger variant of
\interscoreline
only if the macro
\lilypondpaperlastpagefill
is not defined (flushing the systems
to the top of the page). You can avoid that by setting the variable
lastpagefill
in LilyPond's \paper
block.
It is possible to fine-tune the vertical offset further by defining the
macro \lilypondscoreshift
:
\def\lilypondscoreshift{0.25\baselineskip}
where \baselineskip
is the distance from one text line to the next.
Here an example how to embed a small LilyPond file foo.ly
into
running LaTeX text without using the lilypond-book
script
(see lilypond-book manual):
\documentclass{article} \def\lilypondpaperlastpagefill{} \lineskip 5pt \def\lilypondscoreshift{0.25\baselineskip} \begin{document} This is running text which includes an example music file \input{foo.tex} right here. \end{document}
The file foo.tex has been simply produced with
lilypond-bin foo.ly
The call to \lineskip
assures that there is enough vertical space
between the LilyPond box and the surrounding text lines.
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