Re: lilypond-book texinfo and a two-book-ly-file

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 09/07/2022 à 13:41, Thomas Morley a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> for some huge custom code I'm going to write some documentation using texinfo.
> I started to set up the file manual.tely.
> In terminal then:
>      lilypond-book manual.tely
>      texi2html manual.texi
>
> At some point I have:
> @lilypondfile[quote]{../doc-snippets/haenschen-klein.ly}
>
> Two questions about it:
> (1) This ly-file ouputs two books and I see several images after
> running lilypond-book for it:
> lily-6333cb39-1-1.eps
> lily-6333cb39-1.eps
> lily-6333cb39.eps
> lily-6333cb39-1.png
> lily-6333cb39.png
> Alas only the output of the first book is finally printed (i.e. after texi2html)
> Is it possible get both books printed?


A low-tech solution is to put your music variables in an
include file and do two ly snippets, each with one of the
two books.


> (2) One of the books is in portrait the other in landscape format
> Is there any texinfo option to get the landscape one rotated?
> That landscape thingy is needed and I can't change it, it may be an
> option to drop the portrait-book, though.
> Even dropping that one I'd need to get the landscape output rotated, though.

I don't think Texinfo has an easy way to rotate an image when
inserting it.

If I were to do this, I would probably just write the documentation
in a .ly file using \markup. Alternatively, I might use Sphinx,
which unlike Texinfo is extensible, and modify
https://github.com/sphinx-notes/lilypond
to add support for rotating the output.

Jean