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.TH LILYPOND "1" "August 2020" "LilyPond 2.18.2" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
LilyPond \- manual page for LilyPond 2.18.2
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B lilypond
[\fIOPTION\fR]... \fIFILE\fR...
.SH DESCRIPTION
Typeset music and/or produce MIDI from FILE.
.PP
LilyPond produces beautiful music notation.
For more information, see http://lilypond.org
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-define\-default=SYM\fR[=\fIVAL\fR]
set Scheme option SYM to VAL (default: #t).
Use \fB\-dhelp\fR for help.
.TP
\fB\-e\fR, \fB\-\-evaluate\fR=\fIEXPR\fR
evaluate scheme code
.TP
\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-formats\fR=\fIFORMATs\fR
dump FORMAT,...  Also as separate options:
.TP
\fB\-\-pdf\fR
generate PDF (default)
.TP
\fB\-\-png\fR
generate PNG
.TP
\fB\-\-ps\fR
generate PostScript
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
show this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-H\fR, \fB\-\-header\fR=\fIFIELD\fR
dump header field FIELD to file
named BASENAME.FIELD
.TP
\fB\-I\fR, \fB\-\-include\fR=\fIDIR\fR
add DIR to search path
.TP
\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-init\fR=\fIFILE\fR
use FILE as init file
.TP
\fB\-j\fR, \fB\-\-jail\fR=\fIUSER\fR, GROUP, JAIL, DIR
chroot to JAIL, become USER:GROUP
and cd into DIR
.TP
\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-loglevel\fR=\fILOGLEVEL\fR
print log messages according to LOGLEVEL.  Possible values are:
NONE, ERROR, WARNING, BASIC, PROGRESS, INFO (default) and DEBUG.
.TP
\fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-output\fR=\fIFILE\fR
write output to FILE (suffix will be added)
.TP
\fB\-\-relocate\fR
relocate using directory of lilypond program
.TP
\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-silent\fR
no progress, only error messages (equivalent to loglevel=ERROR)
.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
show version number and exit
.TP
\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
be verbose (equivalent to loglevel=DEBUG)
.TP
\fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-warranty\fR
show warranty and copyright
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs via http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.bugs
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 1996\-\-2012 by
.IP
Han\-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
and others.
.PP
This program is free software.  It is covered by the GNU General Public
License and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it
under certain conditions.  Invoke as `lilypond \fB\-\-warranty\fR' for more
information.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
The full documentation for
.B LilyPond
is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the
.B info
and
.B LilyPond
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
.IP
.B info LilyPond
.PP
should give you access to the complete manual.