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.TH LILYPOND "1" "July 2024" "LilyPond 2.24.4 (running Guile 2.2)" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
LilyPond \- manual page for LilyPond 2.24.4 (running Guile 2.2)
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B lilypond
[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... \fI\,FILE\/\fR...
.SH DESCRIPTION
Typeset music and/or produce MIDI from FILE.
.PP
LilyPond produces beautiful music notation.
For more information, see https://lilypond.org
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-formats\fR=\fI\,FORMATs\/\fR
dump FORMAT,...  Also as separate options:
.TP
\fB\-\-pdf\fR
generate PDF files (default)
.TP
\fB\-\-svg\fR
generate SVG files
.TP
\fB\-\-png\fR
generate PNG files
.TP
\fB\-\-ps\fR
generate PostScript files
.TP
\fB\-E\fR, \fB\-\-eps\fR
generate Encapsulated PostScript files
.TP
\fB\-O\fR, \fB\-\-pspdfopt\fR=\fI\,KEY\/\fR
set ps/pdf optimization to KEY, which is either
\&'size' (default), 'TeX', or 'TeX\-GS'
.TP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-define\-default=SYM\fR[=\fI\,VAL\/\fR]
set Scheme option SYM to VAL (default: '#t')
.TP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-define\-default\fR=\fI\,no\-SYM\/\fR
set Scheme option SYM to '#f'
.TP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-define\-default\fR=\fI\,help\/\fR
show help for Scheme options
.TP
\fB\-e\fR, \fB\-\-evaluate\fR=\fI\,EXPR\/\fR
evaluate scheme code
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
show this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-H\fR, \fB\-\-header\fR=\fI\,FIELD\/\fR
dump \eheader field FIELD to file
named BASENAME.FIELD
.TP
\fB\-I\fR, \fB\-\-include\fR=\fI\,DIR\/\fR
append DIR to search path
.TP
\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-init\fR=\fI\,FILE\/\fR
use FILE as init file
.TP
\fB\-j\fR, \fB\-\-jail\fR=\fI\,USER\/\fR,GROUP,JAIL,DIR
chroot to JAIL, become USER:GROUP
and cd into DIR
.TP
\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-loglevel\fR=\fI\,LOGLEVEL\/\fR
print log messages according to LOGLEVEL,
which is either NONE, ERROR, WARNING,
BASIC, PROGRESS, INFO (default), or DEBUG
.TP
\fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-output\fR=\fI\,FILE\/\fR
write output to FILE (suffix will be added)
or to FOLDER, in which case the file name
will be taken from the input file.
.TP
\fB\-\-relocate\fR
(ignored)
.TP
\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-silent\fR
no progress, only error messages
(equivalent to \fB\-\-loglevel\fR=\fI\,ERROR\/\fR)
.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
show version number and exit
.TP
\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
be verbose (equivalent to \fB\-\-loglevel\fR=\fI\,DEBUG\/\fR)
.TP
\fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-warranty\fR
show warranty and copyright
.PP
You found a bug? Please read https://lilypond.org/bug\-reports.html
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 1996\-\-2023 by
.IP
Han\-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
and others.
.PP
This program is free software.  It is covered by the GNU General Public
License and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it
under certain conditions.  Invoke as `lilypond \fB\-\-warranty\fR' for more
information.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
The full documentation for
.B LilyPond
is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the
.B info
and
.B LilyPond
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
.IP
.B info LilyPond
.PP
should give you access to the complete manual.