General ⇒ Hi and request for help integrating Frescobaldi in texworks

[dodgyg1]

Hi guys,

I am a sixty year old newbie from Coventry UK slowly getting my head around Texworks. I am very impressed with the power of Tex. I have successfully managed to get my first lot of code in Texworks to compile and it's looking good. I also have some code in Frescobaldi that works. I now need to get my lilypond code from Frescobaldi to integrate within my Texworks code.

This is what I tried within Texworks.

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\documementclass{article}
\usepackage(lilypond}
\begin{document}
    LOAD OF WORKING LaTeX CODE
\begin{lilypond}
    LOAD OF LILYPOND CODE (WORKING OK IN FRESCOBALDI)
\end{lilypond}
\end{document}

The compiler throws up the error message relating to the second line above

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    ! LaTeX Error: File lilypond.sty not found

I have spent hours on the internet trying to find out what's going wrong to no avail. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in anticipation.

Best regards,

dodgyg1

[Johannes_B]

The package file is missing from your system, i guess you have a basic MikTeX installed. You can use your distributions package manager to istall missing packages. Miktex can install those on the fly as well.

Btw: Please use the code-button to markup code in your posts.
In later questions, we all will find a minimal working example usefull. Please see MWE for more information.

Best regards and welcome to the board

[dodgyg1]

Thanks Johannes_B for your reply. I guessed that might have been the problem. I had assumed that lilypond was on the system to be able to run Frescobaldi but that Tex was not pointing to the file. I am still baffled as to how to get Tex to see the file. I am running ubuntu 13.10 as my operating system.

I did find these lines of code on the internet with reference to the missing lilypond.sty file but there was no indication of where or how it should be used. I have entered it in my code but it is just throwing up all kinds of errors.

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\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesPackage{lilypond}

\RequirePackage{xkeyval}
\RequirePackage{graphicx}

\newlength{\lilypond@staffsize}
\newlength{\lilypond@betweensystemspace}
  \setlength{\lilypond@betweensystemspace}{20mm}
\DeclareOptionX{staffsize}[0]{\setlength{\lilypond@staffsize}{#1pt}}
\DeclareOptionX{between-system-space}[20]{%
  \setlength{\lilypond@betweensystemspace}{#1mm}}
\ProcessOptionsX

\newcommand{\lilypondfile}[1]{%
  \newwrite\conffile
  \immediate\openout\conffile\jobname.lil
  \immediate\write\conffile{[General]}
  \immediate\write\conffile{filename: #1.ly}
  \immediate\write\conffile{columnwidth: \the\columnwidth}
  \immediate\write\conffile{}
  \immediate\write\conffile{[Options]}
  \immediate\write\conffile{staffsize: \the\lilypond@staffsize}
  \immediate\write%
    \conffile{between-system-space: \the\lilypond@betweensystemspace}
  \immediate\closeout\conffile
  \par
  \IfFileExists{#1.eps}{\noindent\includegraphics{#1}}{}
  \par
}

I hope there is someone out there who can make sense of this code and maybe explain to me what is going on. I am assuming that this code should all go in my preamble before the \begin{document} code??

Best regards,

dodgyg1

[hugovdberg]

I don't have any experience using lilypond, but these two pages seem to me to provide all info you need to compile lilypond files using ubuntu:
http://martin-thoma.com/how-to-write-music-with-latex/
https://scottlinux.com/2013/09/15/getti ... ian-linux/

These pages never mention using a package called lilypond.sty, but I guess you found this .sty file on github. If you want to use this package you need to save it in a place where latex can find it, a great manual for this is on TeX.se