Export LilyPond

LilyPond (http://lilypond.org/) is cetrainly the music typesetter with the best output. This mainly for 2 reasons:

Furthermore, LilyPond has a lot of music orthographical knowledge, which prevents notation errors.

LilyPond creates a PostScript or PDF output from a file which contains a text transcription of the music. For example, the input:


\relative c' { \clef treble \key d \major
   d4  e  fis  g a  b  cis  d 
}

causes the following output:

NtEd Mainwindow

NtEd can create the LilyPond text transcription. Choose:

FileExport LilyPond...

Choose a File name! The suffix should be .ly.

Note

This feature is still experimental.

To produce a PostScript or PDF output from this file install LilyPond and type:

lilypond <filename>.ly

To preview and/or print the output use your preferred view/print commands (gv, ggv, evince, xpdf, lpr, kprinter, ...).

Note

As mentioned above, LilyPond uses its own placement strategie and its own fonts. As a consequence the WYSIWYG principle is broken. The output differs from NtEd score.