bartev / lily-jazz

Build some Lilypond examples, and try to enter some music into lilypond that can easily be transposed for different instruments

Documentation

Manuals

1. [NR] Notation reference
2. other
3. third
4. AU [Application Usage] http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/usage-big-page.html

Setup macOS

https://sourabhbajaj.com/mac-setup/

Install lilypond using Homebrew

https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/lilypond

brew install lilypond

Copying Personal *.ly and *.scm files to a new install

https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/learning/other-sources-of-information

Interesting git repos

see for code examples.

[email protected]:jasonflatley/lilypond_for_jazz_musicians.git

uses only guile/lilypond

1. creates book from list of files
2. this looks interesting

Setup on mac

http://danieljohnson.name/blog/installing-lilypond-on-macos

Text fonts

curl -LO http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/whole/tg2_501otf.zip
unzip tg2_501otf.zip
mv tg2_501otf/*.otf /Libraries/Fonts/

Dependencies from homebrew

Install MacTex

brew install --cask mactex

Install fonts

Copy pdfs to iCloud

iCloud files are stored in ~/Documents/ljv-pdfs

To copy files to iCloud.

lilypond eternal-triangle.ly && cp eternal-triangle.pdf ~/Documents/ljv-pdfs/