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LILYPOND

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
COPYRIGHT
SEE ALSO

NAME

LilyPond - manual page for LilyPond 2.24.4 (running Guile 2.2)

SYNOPSIS

lilypond [ OPTION ]... FILE ...

DESCRIPTION

Typeset music and/or produce MIDI from FILE.

LilyPond produces beautiful music notation. For more information, see https://lilypond.org

OPTIONS

-f , --formats = FORMATs

dump FORMAT,... Also as separate options:

	--pdf		generate PDF files (default)
	--svg		generate SVG files
	--png		generate PNG files
	--ps		generate PostScript files

-E , --eps

generate Encapsulated PostScript files

-O , --pspdfopt = KEY

set ps/pdf optimization to KEY, which is either ’size’ (default), ’TeX’, or ’TeX-GS’

-d , --define-default=SYM [= VAL ]

set Scheme option SYM to VAL (default: ’#t’)

-d , --define-default = no-SYM

set Scheme option SYM to ’#f’

-d , --define-default = help

show help for Scheme options

-e , --evaluate = EXPR

evaluate scheme code

-h , --help

show this help and exit

-H , --header = FIELD

dump \header field FIELD to file named BASENAME.FIELD

-I , --include = DIR

append 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, which is either NONE, ERROR, WARNING, BASIC, PROGRESS, INFO (default), or DEBUG

-o , --output = FILE

write output to FILE (suffix will be added) or to FOLDER, in which case the file name will be taken from the input file.

--relocate

(ignored)

-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

You found a bug? Please read https://lilypond.org/bug-reports.html

COPYRIGHT

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.