NAME¶
LilyPond - manual page for LilyPond 2.18.2
SYNOPSIS¶
lilypond [
OPTION]...
FILE...
DESCRIPTION¶
Typeset music and/or produce MIDI from FILE.
LilyPond produces beautiful music notation. For more information, see
http://lilypond.org
OPTIONS¶
- -d, --define-default=SYM[=VAL]
- set Scheme option SYM to VAL (default: #t). Use -dhelp for
help.
- -e, --evaluate=EXPR
- evaluate scheme code
- -f, --formats=FORMATs
- dump FORMAT,... Also as separate options:
- --pdf
- generate PDF (default)
- --png
- generate PNG
- --ps
- generate PostScript
- -h, --help
- show this help and exit
- -H, --header=FIELD
- dump header field FIELD to file named BASENAME.FIELD
- -I, --include=DIR
- add DIR to search path
- -i, --init=FILE
- use FILE as init file
- -j, --jail=USER, GROUP, JAIL, DIR
- chroot to JAIL, become USER:GROUP and cd into DIR
- -l, --loglevel=LOGLEVEL
- print log messages according to LOGLEVEL. Possible values are: NONE,
ERROR, WARNING, BASIC, PROGRESS, INFO (default) and DEBUG.
- -o, --output=FILE
- write output to FILE (suffix will be added)
- --relocate
- relocate using directory of lilypond program
- -s, --silent
- no progress, only error messages (equivalent to loglevel=ERROR)
- -v, --version
- show version number and exit
- -V, --verbose
- be verbose (equivalent to loglevel=DEBUG)
- -w, --warranty
- show warranty and copyright
REPORTING BUGS¶
Report bugs via
http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.bugs
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 1996--2012 by
- Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl> Jan Nieuwenhuizen
<janneke@gnu.org> and others.
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
--warranty' for more information.
SEE ALSO¶
The full documentation for
LilyPond is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If
the
info and
LilyPond programs are properly installed at your
site, the command
- info LilyPond
should give you access to the complete manual.