THANK YOU for Lilypond-Book

[Jonathan Kulp]

Just a quick note to say "Thanks" to whoever's responsible for Lilypond 
Book.  The combination of Lilypond with LaTeX is one of the most 
impressive tools I've ever used.  I wish I'd had this when I was working 
on my doctoral dissertation in the late 1990s.  I love the seamless 
integration of musical examples, of course, but even LaTeX by itself 
makes it possible to use musical elements in the body of the text 
without jacking up the line spacing--real sharp, flat, and natural 
symbols instead of # and lower-case b, perfect time signatures using the 
math environment, and numbers with carrots on top of them to indicate 
scale degrees.  It's awesome.  Plus it formats everything as a book and 
creates a .pdf file with embedded bookmarks automagically.  Incredible. 
 I'm using it now to write a counterpoint workbook that I will 
distribute freely under a creative commons license so my students (and 
those of any other instructor who wants to use it) can avoid paying $50+ 
for a skimpy workbook published by Prentice-Hall. :(  I'll post it 
online when I'm done and give a heads-up so people can go see it.

Thanks and all best,

Jon
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Jonathan Kulp
http://www.jonathankulp.com