9.3 Integrating Texinfo and music

Texinfo is the standard format for documentation at the GNU project. An example of a texinfo document is this manual. The HTML, PDF and Info versions of the manual are made from the document.

In the input file, music is specified like

@lilypond[options,go,here]
  YOUR LILYPOND CODE
@end lilypond
@lilypond[options,go,here]{ YOUR LILYPOND CODE }
@lilypondfile[options,go,here]{filename}

When lilypond-book is run on it, this results in a texinfo file (with extension .texi) containing @image tags for HTML and info. For the printed edition, the raw TeX output of LilyPond is included into the main document.

We show two simple examples here. A lilypond environment

@lilypond[fragment]
  c' d' e' f' g'2 g'
@end lilypond

produces

The short version

@lilypond[fragment,staffsize=11]{<c' e' g'>}

produces

When producing texinfo, lilypond-book also generates bitmaps of the music (in PNG format), so you can make an HTML document with embedded music.