<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>Export LilyPond</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2"><meta name="keywords" content="Gtk, NtEd, music, editor, notes, score, MIDI"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The NtEd Handbook"><link rel="up" href="ch01.html" title="Chapter 1. Using NtEd"><link rel="prev" href="ch01s40.html" title="Export PNG and SVG"><link rel="next" href="ch01s42.html" title="Import MIDI"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Export LilyPond</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch01s40.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 1. Using NtEd</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch01s42.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="sect1" title="Export LilyPond"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="lilypond_export"></a>Export LilyPond</h2></div></div></div><p>LilyPond (<a class="ulink" href="http://lilypond.org/" target="_top">http://lilypond.org/</a>)
is cetrainly the music typesetter with the best output. This mainly for
2 reasons:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem"><p>The developers made a lot of effort to create special
music fonts, which are derived from traditional music printing. They even
created their own tools for font format conversion
to get the best results.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>LilyPond uses a multi pass technique which takes as
much time as necessary to perform an
excellent placement of the musical symbols.</p></li></ul></div><p>Furthermore, LilyPond has a lot of music orthographical knowledge, which
prevents notation errors.</p><p>LilyPond creates a PostScript or PDF output from a file which
contains a text transcription of the music. For example, the input:</p><p>
</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br>
\relative c' { \clef treble \key d \major<br>
   d4  e  fis  g a  b  cis  d <br>
}<br>
<br>
</p></div><p>
</p><p>causes the following output:</p><div class="mediaobject"><img src="../docimages/dscale.png" alt="NtEd Mainwindow"></div><p>NtEd can create the LilyPond text transcription. Choose:</p><p>
<span class="guimenu"><span class="accel">F</span>ile</span> → <span class="guimenuitem">Export LilyPond...</span>
</p><p>The LilyPond export dialog appears:</p><div class="mediaobject"><img src="../docimages/lilyeportdialog.png" alt="LilyPond export dialog"></div><p>On checkbox at the head you can determine whether or not NtEd shall place
<code class="computeroutput">\break</code> statments to achieve the same line breaks as in NtEd score.</p><p>If you want to export a subset of staves press the <code class="computeroutput">select staves</code> button.
The staff selection dialog appears:</p><div class="mediaobject"><img src="../docimages/staff_selection_dialog.png" alt="the staff selection dialog"></div><p>Select a subset of staves. To select more than 1 staff press Ctrl during selection. To
select a range of staves press and hold Shift. Then select the first and the last staff of
the range.</p><p>Choose a File name - the suffix should be <code class="filename">.ly</code> - and press <code class="computeroutput">OK</code>.</p><p>To produce a PostScript or PDF output from this file install
LilyPond and type:</p><p><strong class="userinput"><code>lilypond </code></strong><filename><strong class="userinput"><code>.ly</code></strong>
</p><p>To preview and/or print the output use your preferred view/print
commands (<span class="application">gv, ggv, evince, xpdf, lpr, kprinter, ...</span>).</p><div class="note" title="Note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>As mentioned above, LilyPond uses its own placement strategie and
its own fonts.
As a consequence the WYSIWYG principle is broken. The output differs
from NtEd score.</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch01s40.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="ch01.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch01s42.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Export PNG and SVG </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Import MIDI</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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