## 6 lilypond-book manual

If you want to add pictures of music to a document, you can simply do it the way you would do with other types of pictures. The pictures are created separately, yielding PostScript pictures or PNG images, and those are included into a LaTeX or HTML document.

lilypond-book provides a way to automate this process: this program extracts snippets of music from your document, runs LilyPond on them, and outputs the document with pictures substituted for the music. The line width and font size definitions for the music are adjusted to match the layout of your document.

This procedure may be applied to LaTeX, `html` or Texinfo documents. A tutorial on using lilypond-book is in Integrating text and music. For more information about LaTeX The not so Short Introduction to LaTeX provides a introduction to using LaTeX.

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