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LILYPOND(1) User Commands LILYPOND(1)

LilyPond - manual page for LilyPond 2.18.2

lilypond [OPTION]... FILE...

Typeset music and/or produce MIDI from FILE.

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

set Scheme option SYM to VAL (default: #t). Use -dhelp for help.
evaluate scheme code
dump FORMAT,... Also as separate options:
generate PDF (default)
generate PNG
generate PostScript
show this help and exit
dump header field FIELD to file named BASENAME.FIELD
add DIR to search path
use FILE as init file
chroot to JAIL, become USER:GROUP and cd into DIR
print log messages according to LOGLEVEL. Possible values are: NONE, ERROR, WARNING, BASIC, PROGRESS, INFO (default) and DEBUG.
write output to FILE (suffix will be added)
relocate using directory of lilypond program
no progress, only error messages (equivalent to loglevel=ERROR)
show version number and exit
be verbose (equivalent to loglevel=DEBUG)
show warranty and copyright

Report bugs via http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.bugs

Copyright © 1996--2012 by

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.

The full documentation for LilyPond is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and LilyPond programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info LilyPond

should give you access to the complete manual.

August 2020 LilyPond 2.18.2