“Necessity is the mother of invention” I’m typesetting a piece for 2 guitars and in the end I want to print off individual parts and a score. This can easily be achieved in Lilypond using the following method: First I create a file called “notes.ly” this is the file which will contain all the music. […]

With Lilypond each time I start a new project I start with a template file….here is the code: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% Headers %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \version “2.10.33” \header { title = “” subtitle = “” tagline = “Eugene Cormier – 2008” } \paper { print-page-number = ##f ragged-last-bottom = ##t ragged-right = ##f indent = 0\in } #(set-global-staff-size […]

I use Lilypond quite a lot, and over time I’ve realized the usefulness of variables. In Lilypond you can easily make a variable by doing the following: variablename = { whatever you want your variable to contain } let me give an example….If I want to typeset a piece for guitar quartet (or any collection […]

I’ve been recently typesetting some classical guitar notation into Lilypond and wanting to get as close to the original as possible I noticed that Lilypond was handling doubled notes with different values incorrectly (for my purposes). Here is some example code to demonstrate what I mean: \relative c”{ } Produces: To get around this use […]