Bagpipe music with LilyPond

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Before downloading Lilypond, please read about the text input.

Installing LilyPond

You must download Lilypond before doing any of the following.

Using LilyPond with macOS

Setting the lilypond command

In order to use the lilypond command, export the right path as follows (it must match with the location of your LilyPond.app file):

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin"

Compiling a LilyPond file

Run the lilypond command to make LilyPond compile the .ly file:

lilypond file_name.ly

It will compile the source file and create a .pdf file.

Compiling with Sublime Text

In order to make the compilation easier with Sublime Text, I created a new Build System for Lilypond containing:

{
    "shell_cmd": "lilypond $file",
    "selector": "source.lilypond"
}

Syntax highlighting with vim

In case you are writing with the vim editor, you can add these lines to your .vimrc file to enable syntax highlighting for Lilypond:

filetype off
set runtimepath+=~/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/share/lilypond/current/vim
filetype on