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[http://lilypond.org LilyPond] is a great music engraver, and you can include LilyPond in ConTeXt source using [[modules:filter|the filter module]] with some setup. This is different from using the lilypond-book preprocessor with LaTeX. (For LaTeX there’s also a package that works similar to our ConTeXt setup here: [https://github.com/jperon/lyluatex lyluatex].)
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[http://lilypond.org LilyPond] is a great music engraver, and you can include LilyPond in ConTeXt source using [https://github.com/adityam/filter the filter module] with some setup. This is different from using the lilypond-book preprocessor with LaTeX. (For LaTeX there’s also a package that works similar to our ConTeXt setup here: [https://github.com/jperon/lyluatex lyluatex].)
  
 
== Simple Filter Setup ==
 
== Simple Filter Setup ==

Revision as of 20:15, 22 February 2018

< Graphics | Using Graphics >

LilyPond is a great music engraver, and you can include LilyPond in ConTeXt source using the filter module with some setup. This is different from using the lilypond-book preprocessor with LaTeX. (For LaTeX there’s also a package that works similar to our ConTeXt setup here: lyluatex.)

Simple Filter Setup

This works with ConTeXt MkII and MkIV, but takes only the first page of multi-pages scores, and you must create the folder "lilytemp" manually:

\def\readPDFfile#1{\externalfigure[#1]}

\usemodule[filter]
\defineexternalfilter[lilypond]
	[continue=yes,
	readcommand=\readPDFfile,
	directory=lilytemp/, % directory for LilyPond's files
	output={\externalfilterbasefile.pdf},
	filtercommand={lilypond -dbackend=eps -ddelete-intermediate-files -o"lilytemp/\externalfilterbasefile" "\externalfilterinputfile"}]

Multi Page Filter Setup

This uses Lua and therefore only works with ConTeXt MkIV. It includes all pages of multi-page scores. It doesn’t look into the complete (multi-page) PDF, but reads a "-system.count" auxiliary file written by LilyPond that contains the number of systems (pages) and includes the single-system PDFs.

\def\LILYTEMP{lilytemp} % name of folder for LilyPond/buffer files

\def\ParseLilypondFile#1% #1 is the name of the output file
  {\ctxlua{thirddata.parselilypondfile("#1")}}

\startluacode
 thirddata = thirddata or {}
 
 -- create temp folder if missing
 if not lfs.isdir("\LILYTEMP") then
   lfs.mkdir("\LILYTEMP")
 end
 
 function thirddata.parselilypondfile(name)
   -- include all systems (pages)
   -- name is like \LILYTEMP/mainfile-temp-lilypond-21.pdf
   logs.report("LILYPOND","name='" .. name .. "'")
   local scname = string.gsub(name, '%.pdf$', '-systems.count')
   local syco = tonumber(io.loaddata(scname)) or 0
   
   for nr = 1, syco do
     logs.report("LILYPOND","including system no." .. nr)
     context("\\externalfigure[" .. string.gsub(name, '%.pdf$', '-' .. nr) .. "]")
   end
 end
\stopluacode

\usemodule[filter]
\defineexternalfilter[lilypond]
	[continue=yes,
        cache=yes,
	readcommand=\ParseLilypondFile,
	directory=\LILYTEMP/,
	output={\externalfilterbasefile.pdf},
	filtercommand={lilypond -dbackend=eps -o"\LILYTEMP/\externalfilterbasefile" "\externalfilterinputfile"}]


LilyPond Settings

Collect your LilyPond settings in a .ly file, put it in your lilytemp directory and include it from within your lilypond block like this:

\startlilypond
\include "mysettings.ly"
...
\stoplilypond

You can avoid this \include line following filter module documentation, section "Prepend and append text". In short: you can inline your complete LilyPond settings or at least the include line:

\startbuffer[lilypond::settings]
\include "mysettings.ly"
\stopbuffer

\defineexternalfilter[lilypond][
	...
	bufferbefore={lilypond::settings},
	...]

Sample Include File

"mysettings.ly" could look like this:

\version "2.18.2"
#(ly:set-option (quote no-point-and-click))
#(set-global-staff-size 14)

% --- start of setup for single-line output files ---
#(define default-toplevel-book-handler
  print-book-with-defaults-as-systems )

#(define toplevel-book-handler
  (lambda ( . rest)
  (set! output-empty-score-list #f)
  (apply print-book-with-defaults rest)))

#(define toplevel-music-handler
  (lambda ( . rest)
   (apply collect-music-for-book rest)))

#(define toplevel-score-handler
  (lambda ( . rest)
   (apply collect-scores-for-book rest)))

#(define toplevel-text-handler
  (lambda ( . rest)
   (apply collect-scores-for-book rest)))

#(set! output-empty-score-list #t)

% --- stop single-line setup ---

\paper {
	#(define dump-extents #t)
	indent = 0\mm
	ragged-bottom = ##t
	ragged-last-bottom = ##t
	print-page-number = ##f
	line-width = 120\mm
	oddFooterMarkup  = ##f
	oddHeaderMarkup  = ##f
	bookTitleMarkup  = ##f
	scoreTitleMarkup = ##f
}

\layout {
	#(layout-set-staff-size 14) % beware, this resets fonts!
	% set fonts for rm / ss / tt 
	#(define fonts (make-pango-font-tree "TeX Gyre Schola" "LMSans10" "LMTypewriter10 Regular" (/ 14 20)))
 	\context { \Score
		\remove "Bar_number_engraver"
		\override PaperColumn #'keep-inside-line = ##t
 	}
        % some example settings
	\context { \Staff
  		\override TimeSignature #'style = #'numbered
 	}
	\context { \ChordNames
		chordChanges = ##t
		majorSevenSymbol = \markup{ 7+ }
	}
}

Please look up the meaning of settings in LilyPond’s great documentation!

If you’d like to exchange measures like text width between ConTeXt and LilyPond, you could write those into the LilyPond buffer. To give LilyPond measures to ConTeXt, you would need to write them into a temp file (using Scheme) and read that in again (useing Lua). For the time being this is left as an exercise to the user. ;)

Unfortunately you can’t define LilyPond’s text (lyrics) size with an absolute value, but only relative to staff size...

Named Buffers

Normally, your LilyPond snippets just get a running number. If you re-order your scores, each one gets re-rendered.

You can avoid that if you name your LilyPond snippets: just add [name=myfunnyname] to \startlilypond.

If you have just one LilyPond part per component (e.g. songs in a songbook), you could use [name=\currentcomponent].

Automatical width adaption

If you want to set your note line width automatically to your current text width, try this:

 -- this goes after "create temp folder"
 io.savedata("\LILYTEMP/texsettings.ly", "\\paper { line-width = " .. 
	string.gsub(number.todimen(tex.dimen.textwidth),"pt","\\pt") .. " } \n")

and then adapt your snippets or preamble buffer:

\include "../mysettings.ly"
\include "texsettings.ly"

You must comment/delete the "line-width" setting in mysettings.ly, otherwise it doesn’t work.

Example

Here's an example of placing score snippets in the body of the text, with fonts in the score & body matching:

\def\LILYTEMP{lilytemp} % name of folder for LilyPond/buffer files

\def\ParseLilypondFile#1% #1 is the name of the output file
  {\ctxlua{thirddata.parselilypondfile("#1")}}

\startluacode
 thirddata = thirddata or {}

 -- create temp folder if missing
 if not lfs.isdir("\LILYTEMP") then
   lfs.mkdir("\LILYTEMP")
 end

 function thirddata.parselilypondfile(name)
   -- include all systems (pages)
   -- name is like \LILYTEMP/mainfile-temp-lilypond-21.pdf
   logs.report("LILYPOND","name='" .. name .. "'")
   local scname = string.gsub(name, '%.pdf$', '-systems.count')
   local syco = tonumber(io.loaddata(scname)) or 0

   for nr = 1, syco do
     logs.report("LILYPOND","including system no." .. nr)
     context("\\setupfloats[location=right,frame=off]\\placefigure[none]{}{\\externalfigure[" .. string.gsub(name, '%.pdf$', '-' .. nr) .. "]}")
   end
 end
\stopluacode

\usemodule[filter]
\defineexternalfilter[lilypond]
  [continue=yes,
        cache=yes,
  readcommand=\ParseLilypondFile,
  directory=\LILYTEMP/,
  output={\externalfilterbasefile.pdf},
  filtercommand={lilypond -dbackend=eps -dinclude-eps-fonts -dno-gs-load-fonts -o"\LILYTEMP/\externalfilterbasefile" "\externalfilterinputfile"}]

 \setuplayout[textwidth=6in] % matches line-width below
\definefontfeature[main][protrusion=quality, expansion=quality]
\definefontfamily[mainface][rm][Adobe Jenson Pro][features=main]
\setupbodyfont[mainface,13pt]
\setupalign[hz,hanging]

\starttext

\input zapf

\startlilypond

\layout{
  indent=0\mm
  ragged-right = ##f
}
\paper  {
myStaffSize = #20
  #(define fonts
    (make-pango-font-tree "Adobe Jenson Pro"
                          "Myriad Pro"
                          "Myriad Pro"
(/ myStaffSize 20)))
line-width=6\in
  oddFooterMarkup=##f
  oddHeaderMarkup=##f
  bookTitleMarkup = ##f
  scoreTitleMarkup = ##f
 }
melody = \relative c'' {
  \clef treble
  \key c \major
  \time 4/4

  a b c d
}

text = \lyricmode {
Aaa Bee Cee Dee
}

upper = \relative c'' {
  \clef treble
  \key c \major
  \time 2/4

  a4 b c d
}

lower = \relative c {
  \clef bass
  \key c \major
  \time 2/4

  a2 c
}

\score {
  <<
    \new Voice = "mel" { \autoBeamOff \melody }
    \new Lyrics \lyricsto mel \text
    \new PianoStaff <<
      \new Staff = "upper" \upper
      \new Staff = "lower" \lower
    >>
  >>
  \layout {
    \context { \Staff \RemoveEmptyStaves }
  }
}

\stoplilypond
\input tufte

\stoptext

Too many open files

With bigger projects and the above setup you might run into "too many open files" errors, at least in Linux, OSX and other Unix-like OSes. Ask your shell about the open files maximum and set it higher:

 $ ulimit -n
 256
 $ ulimit -S -n 2048

Deprecation

The old LilyPond module (t-lilypond) doesn't work any more with recent versions of ConTeXt, therefore we removed its documentation here.