.TH glilypond 1 "4 October 2023" "groff 1.23.0"
.SH Name
glilypond \- embed LilyPond musical notation in
.I groff
documents
.
.
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.SH Synopsis
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.SY glilypond
.RB [ \-k ]
.RB [{ \-\-ly2eps | \-\-pdf2eps }]
.RB [ \-e
.IR directory ]
.RB [ \-o
.IR output-file ]
.RB [ \-p
.IR filename-prefix ]
.RB [ \-t
.IR tdir ]
.RB [{ \-v | \-V }]
.RB [ \-\- ]
.RI [ file\~ .\|.\|.]
.
.
.SY glilypond
.RB [{ \-\-ly2eps | \-\-pdf2eps }]
.RB [ \-\-eps_dir
.IR directory ]
.RB [ \-\-keep_all ]
.RB [ \-\-output
.IR output-file ]
.RB [ \-\-prefix
.IR filename-prefix ]
.RB [ \-\-temp_dir
.IR tdir ]
.RB [ \-\-verbose ]
.RB [ \-\- ]
.RI [ file\~ .\|.\|.]
.YS
.
.
.SY glilypond
.B \-?
.SY glilypond
.B \-h
.SY glilypond
.B \-\-help
.SY glilypond
.B \-\-usage
.YS
.
.
.SY glilypond
.B \-l
.SY glilypond
.B \-\-license
.YS
.
.
.SY glilypond
.B \-\-version
.YS
.
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.\" ====================================================================
.SH Description
.\" ====================================================================
.
.I glilypond
is a
.MR groff 7
preprocessor that enables the embedding of LilyPond music scores in
.I groff
documents.
.\".
.\".B .PDFPIC
.\"is available, but does not yet work with lilypond.
.
If no operands are given,
or if
.I file
is
.RB \[lq] \- \[rq],
.I glilypond
reads the standard input stream.
.
A double-dash argument
.RB (\[lq] \-\- \[rq])
causes all subsequent arguments to be interpreted as
.I file
operands,
even if their names start with a dash.
.
.
.\" ====================================================================
.SH Usage
.\" ====================================================================
.
At present,
.I glilypond
works with the
.I groff
.BR ps ,
.BR dvi ,
.BR html ,
and
.B xhtml
devices.
.
The
.B lbp
and
.B lj4
devices are untested.
.
Unfortunately,
the
.B pdf
device does not yet work.
.
.
.\" ====================================================================
.SH "Option overview"
.\" ====================================================================
.
.
.TP
.BR \-? | \-h | \-\-help | \-\-usage
Display usage information and exit.
.
.TP
.B \-\-version
Display version information and exit.
.
.TP
.BR \-l | \-\-license
Display copyright license information and exit.
.
.
.\" ====================================================================
.SS "Options for building EPS files"
.\" ====================================================================
.
.TP
.B \-\-ly2eps
Direct
.MR lilypond 1
to create Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files.
.
This is the default.
.
.
.TP
.B \-\-pdf2eps
The program
.I glilypond
generates a PDF file using
.IR lilypond .
.
Then the EPS file is generated by
.I pdf2ps
and
.IR ps2eps .
.
.
.\" ====================================================================
.SS "Directories and files"
.\" ====================================================================
.
.TP
.BR \-e | \-\-eps_dir "\fI directory_name\fP"
Normally all
.I EPS
files are sent to the temporary directory.
.
With this option,
you can generate your own directory,
in which all useful
.I EPS
files are send.
.
So at last, the temporary directory can be removed.
.
.
.TP
.BR \-p | \-\-prefix "\fI begin_of_name\fP"
Normally all temporary files get names that start with the
.BI ly .\|.\|.\&
prefix.
.
With this option, you can freely change this prefix.
.
.
.TP
.BR \-k | \-\-keep_all
Normally all temporary files without the
.I eps
files are deleted.
.
With this option, all generated files either by the
.I lilypond
program or other format transposers are kept.
.
.
.TP
.BR \-t | \-\-temp_dir "\fI dir\fP"
With this option, you call a directory that is the base for the
temporary directory.
.
This directory name is used as is without any extensions.
.
If this directory does not exist it is be created.
.
The temporary directory is created by Perl's security operations
directly under this directory.
.
In this temporary directory, the temporary files are stored.
.
.
.\" ====================================================================
.SS Output
.\" ====================================================================
.
.TP
.BR \-o | \-\-output "\fI file_name\fP"
Normally all
.I groff
output of this program is sent to
.BR STDOUT .
.
With this option, that can be changed, such that the output is stored
into a file named in the option argument
.IR file_name .
.
.
.TP
.BR \-v | \-V | \-\-verbose
A lot more of information is sent to STDERR.
.
.
.\" ====================================================================
.SS "Short option collections"
.\" ====================================================================
.
The argument handling of options
.
.
.P
.I "Short options"
are arguments that start with a single dash
.BR \- .
.
Such an argument can consist of arbitrary many options without option
argument, composed as a collection of option characters following the
single dash.
.
.
.P
Such a collection can be terminated by an option character that
expects an option argument.
.
If this option character is not the last character of the argument,
the following final part of the argument is the option argument.
.
If it is the last character of the argument, the next argument is
taken as the option argument.
.
.
.P
This is the standard for
.I POSIX
and
.I GNU
option management.
.
.
.P
For example,
.
.TP
.BI \-kVe " some_dir"
is a collection of the short options
.B \-k
and
.B \-V
without option argument, followed by the short option
.B \-e
with option argument that is the following part of the argument
.IR some_dir .
.
So this argument could also be written as several arguments
.B \-k \-V \-e
.IR some_dir .
.
.
.\" ====================================================================
.SS "Handling of long options"
.\" ====================================================================
.
Arguments that start with a double dash
.B \-\-
are so-called
.I "long options" R .
.
Each double dash argument can only have a single long option.
.
.
.P
.I "Long options"
have or have not an option argument.
.
An option argument can be the next argument or can be appended with an
equal sign
.B =
to the same argument as the long option.
.
.
.TP
.B \-\-help
is a long option without an option argument.
.
.TP
.BI \-\-eps_dir " some_dir"
.TQ
.BI \-\-eps_dir= some_dir
is the long option
.B \-\-eps_dir
with the option argument
.IR some_dir .
.
.
.P
Moreover the program allows abbreviations of long options, as much as
possible.
.
.
.P
The
.I "long option"
.B \-\-keep_all
can be abbreviated from
.B \-\-keep_al
up to
.B \-\-k
because the program does not have another
.I "long option"
whose name starts with the character
.BR k .
.
.
.P
On the other hand, the option
.B \-\-version
cannot be abbreviated further than
.B \-\-vers
because there is also the
.I long option
.B \-\-verbose
that can be abbreviated up to
.BR \-\-verb .
.
.
.P
An option argument can also be appended to an abbreviation.
.
So is
.BI \-\-e= some_dir
the same as
.B \-\-eps_dir
.IR some_dir .
.
.
.P
Moreover the program allows an arbitrary usage of upper and lower case
in the option name.
.
This is
.I Perl
style.
.
.
.P
For example, the
.I "long option"
.B \-\-keep_all
can as well be written as
.B \-\-Keep_All
or even as an abbreviation like
.BR \-\-KeE .
.
.
.br
.ne 6v
.\" ====================================================================
.SH "LilyPond regions in \f[I]roff\f[] input"
.\" ====================================================================
.
.\" ====================================================================
.SS "Integrated LilyPond code"
.\" ====================================================================
.
A
.I lilypond
part within a structure written in the
.I groff
language is the whole part between the marks
.RS
.EX
.B ".lilypond start"
.EE
.RE
and
.RS
.EX
.B ".lilypond end"
.EE
.RE
.
A
.I groff
input can have several of these
.I lilypond
parts.
.
.
.P
When processing such a
.I lilypond
part between
.B ".lilypond start"
and
.B ".lilypond end"
we say that the
.B glilypond
program is in
.IR "lilypond mode" .
.
.
.P
These
.I lilypond
parts are sent into temporary
.I lilypond
files with the file name extension
.BR .ly .
.
These files are transformed later on into
.I EPS
files.
.
.
.\" ====================================================================
.SS "Inclusion of \f[I].ly\f[] files"
.\" ====================================================================
.
An additional command line for file inclusion of
.I lilypond
files is given by
.EX
.BI ".lilypond include" " file_name"
.EE
in
.I groff
input.
.
For each such
.I include
command, one file of
.I lilypond
code can be included into the
.I groff
code.
.
Arbitrarily many of these commands can be included in the
.I groff
input.
.
.
.P
These include commands can only be used outside the
.I lilypond
parts.
.
Within the
.IR "lilypond mode" ,
this inclusion is not possible.
.
So
.B ".lilypond include"
may not be used in
.IR "lilypond mode" ,
i.e.\& between
.B ".lilypond start"
and
.BR ".lilypond end" .
.
.
These included
.IR ly -files
are also transformed into
.I EPS
files.
.
.
.\" ====================================================================
.SH "Generated files"
.\" ====================================================================
.
By the transformation process of
.I lilypond
parts into
.I EPS
files, there are many files generated.
.
By default, these files are regarded as temporary files and as such
stored in a temporary directory.
.
.
.P
This process can be changed by command-line options.
.
.
.\" ====================================================================
.SS "Command-line options for directories"
.\" ====================================================================
.
The temporary directory for this program is either created
automatically or can be named by the option
.BR \-t | \-\-temp_dir
.IR dir .
.
.
.P
Moreover, the
.I EPS
files that are later on referred by
.B .PSPIC
command in the final
.I groff
output can be stored in a different directory that can be set by the
command-line option
.BR \-e | \-\-eps_dir
.IR directory_name .
.
With this option, the temporary directory can be removed completely at
the end of the program.
.
.
.P
The beginning of the names of the temporary files can be set by the
command-line options
.B \-p
or
.BR \-\-prefix .
.
.
.P
All of the temporary files except the
.I EPS
files are deleted finally.
.
This can be changed by setting the command-line options
.B \-k
or
.BR \-\-keep_files .
.
With this, all temporary files and directories are kept, not deleted.
.
.
.P
These
.I EPS
files are stored in a temporary or
.I EPS
directory.
.
But they cannot be deleted by the transformation process because they
are needed for the display which can take a long time.
.
.
.\" ====================================================================
.SH "Transformation processes for generating EPS files"
.\" ====================================================================
.
.\" ====================================================================
.SS "Mode pdf2eps"
.\" ====================================================================
.
This mode is the actual default and can also be chosen by the option
.BR \-\-pdf2eps .
.
.
.P
In this mode, the
.B .ly
files are transformed by the
.MR lilypond 1
program into
.I PDF
files, using
.RS
.EX
.BI "lilypond \-\-pdf \-\-output=" file-name
.EE
.RE
for each
.B .ly
file.
.
The
.I file-name
must be provided without the extension
.BR .pdf .
.
By this process, a file
.IB file-name .pdf
is generated.
.
.
.P
The next step is to transform these
.I PDF
files into a
.I PS
file.
.
This is done by the
.MR pdf2ps 1
program using
.RS
.EX
$\~\c
.B pdf2ps\~\c
.IB file-name .pdf\~\c
.IB file-name .pds
.EE
.RE
.
.
The next step creates an
.I EPS
file from the
.I PS
file.
.
This is done by the
.MR ps2eps 1
program using
.RS
.EX
.RB "$ " "ps2eps " \fIfile-name\fP ".ps"
.EE
.RE
.
.
.P
By that, a file
.IB file-name .eps
is created for each
.I lilypond
part in the
.I groff
file or standard input.
.
.
.P
The last step to be done is replacing all
.I lilypond
parts by the
.I groff
command
.RS
.EX
.BI ".PSPIC " file-name .eps
.EE
.RE
.
.
.\" ====================================================================
.SS "Mode ly2eps"
.\" ====================================================================
.
In earlier time, this mode was the default.
.
But now it does not work any more, so accept the new default
.IR pdf2eps .
.
For testing, this mode can also be chosen by the
.I glilypond
option
.BR \-\-ly2eps .
.
.
.P
In this mode, the
.B .ly
files are transformed by the
.I lilypond
program into many files of different formats, including
.I eps
files, using
.RS
.EX
$\~\c
.B lilypond \-\-ps \-dbackend=eps \-dgs\-load\-fonts \-\-output=\c
.I file-name
.EE
.RE
for each
.B .ly
file.
.
The output
.I file\-name
must be provided without an extension, its directory is temporary.
.
.
.P
There are many
.I EPS
files created.
.
One having the complete transformed
.B ly
file, named
.IB file\-name .eps \fR.\fP
.
.
.P
Moreover there are
.I EPS
files for each page, named
.IB file\-name \- digit .eps \fR.\fP
.
.
.P
The last step to be done is replacing all
.I lilypond
parts by the collection of the corresponding
.I EPS
page files.
.
This is done by
.I groff
commands
.EX
.BI ".PSPIC " file-name \- digit .eps
.EE
.
.
.\" ====================================================================
.SH "Generated \f[I]groff\f[] output"
.\" ====================================================================
.
The new
.MR groff 7
structure generated by
.I glilypond
is either
.
.TP
1)
sent to standard output and can there be saved into a file or piped into
.MR groff 1
or
.
.TP
2)
stored into a file by given the option
.BR \-o\ \~| \~\-\-output
.I file_name
.
.
.\" ====================================================================
.SH Authors
.\" ====================================================================
.
.I glilypond
was written by
.MT groff\-bernd\:.warken\-72@\:web\:.de
Bernd Warken
.ME .
.
.
.\" ====================================================================
.SH "See also"
.\" ====================================================================
.
.TP
.MR groff 1
describes the usage of the
.I groff
command and contains pointers to further documentation of the
.I groff
system.
.
.
.TP
.MR groff_tmac 5
describes the
.B .PSPIC
request.
.
.
.TP
.MR lilypond 1
briefly describes the
.I lilypond
command and contains pointers to further documentation.
.
.
.TP
.MR pdf2ps 1
transforms a
.I PDF
file into a
.I PostScript
format.
.
.
.TP
.MR ps2eps 1
transforms a
.I PS
file into an
.I EPS
format.
.
.
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