The author is an active Irish traditional musician. He is also a keen inland boater. He is having a lot of fun composing a book on “Traditional Music for Boaters”.
In this paper he describes his successes and frustrations using Lilypond, Lilypond-book, LaTeX, and ABC musical notation. Lilypond and LaTeX have a lot in common. Neither are WYSIWYG, neither demand GUIs. Both compile simple flat files to produce beautiful graphical output.
Lilypond’s original manifestations produced output directly for LaTeX, but of late users writing books have been encouraged to use Lilypond-book. This looks for Lilypond code within LaTeX source files and produces graphics and associated instructions which can then be processed by LaTeX.
Most joy has been gained from automating these processes under Linux and Perl.
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Excellent presentation – depicts how to create music books using Latex for Western Music.
For those who are looking for creating Music notation books and documents based on Carnatic Music instead, the CarMusty application based on XeLatex and Songs Style book will be ideal. Find more at: http://carmusty.sourceforge.net/
For Creating MIDI files from Music Notes in C++, the CFugue Runtime Environment for MIDI Score programming is the tool. Find more at: http://musicnote.sourceforge.net/
Gopalakrishna,
Creator of CFugue
http://gpalem.web.officelive.com/CFugue.html
fantastic. found a clip of this on youtube. nice to see the entire video. really, really helpful. i used to use pdf includes to insert lilypond output into a LaTeX file. never again!