publish music book

[Jim Tisdall]

I'm preparing a book for publication.

My book incorporates many short examples and a fair amount
of text.  I am developing a web site so that
readers can  be presented with customized exercises and hear
midi playback.  The complete exercises will be only
available on the web.  I've got a couple publishers interested
(I've published books before).

Lilypond has several methods to combine text and examples.
One is lilypond-book, but due to the many examples in my
chapters, I find that is too slow, so I'm
deciding on other ways to include the graphics.  No problem
since everything is made possible, especially for a
programmer.  Probably some combo of lilypond with make.

If you've been down this road, providing a book that
incorporates lilypond typesetting to a publisher, I'd
be very grateful to hear about your experience and
advice on successful practices as well as pitfalls;
and in past experience, which publishers accept/dislike
lilypond and may prefer other formats for submissions.

Peace,
Jim