Tool and library for manipulating LilyPond files
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This package provides a commandline program ly that can be used to do various manipulations with LilyPond files. LilyPond (www.lilypond.org) is a music typsetter using a plain text input file format.
This package also provides a Python library ly containing various Python modules to parse, manipulate or create LilyPond files.
The python-ly package is Free Software, licensed under the GPL. This package is written by the Frescobaldi developers and part of the Frescobaldi project. The main author is Wilbert Berendsen.
### Functionality of the ly commandline tool:
With ly you can reformat, or re-indent LilyPond files, transpose music, translate pitch names, convert LilyPond to syntax-colored HTML, etc.
There is also experimental support for converting LilyPond to MusicXML.
Use
ly -h
to get a full list of the features of the ly command.
Here is an example to re-indent and transpose a LilyPond file:
ly “indent; transpose c d” -o output.ly file.ly
### Functionality of the ly Python module:
The ly module supports both Python2 and Python3. This is a short description of some modules:
ly.slexer: generic tools to build parsers using regular expressions
ly.node: a generic list-like node object to build tree structures with
ly.document: a tokenized text document (LilyPond file)
ly.lex: a parser for LilyPond, Scheme, and other formats, using slexer
ly.music: a tree structure of the contents of a document
ly.pitch: functions for translating, transposing etc
ly.indent: indent LilyPond text
ly.reformat: format LilyPond text
ly.dom: (deprecated) tree structure to build LilyPond text from
ly.words: words for highlighting and autocompletion
ly.data: layout objects, properties, interfaces, font glyphs etc extracted from LilyPond
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