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WRITING BAGPIPE MUSIC WITH LILYPOND
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1. Installing Lilypond 2.11.0
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* Grab the installer for your computer platform here:
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http://lilypond.org/web/install/#2.11
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* Or build from source (recommended but not entirely easy, since there are
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many dependencies on external libraries).
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OBS! If you are using Mac OS 10.5 on an Intel machine, you must either use the
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PowerPC version of Lilypond or compile it yourself. I recommend the latter.
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Some helo on how to compile is available
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[here](http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.general/36471).
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2. Installing and using bagpipe.ly
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Invoke lilypond on **cheatsheet.ly**. This creates a PDF with all available
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piping commands and grace notes. Now you can see how to write a crunluath a
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mach, for instance. This will also let you know if your installation is
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working properly.
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Note: When running Lilypond on a *.ly file, it may seem as if the computer has
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stalled. This is normal. Lilypond is doing a lot of calculations, and when
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running a large file it may take a minute or so before you get any output.
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**bagpipe.ly** is where all piping-specific commands and settings live. Do
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look in the file to see how things work. If you find that some gracenotes are
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missing, you can add them here.
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**format.ly** sets the heading format. Change this if you want anything apart
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from my standard format.
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**formatbook.ly** sets the heading format for multi-part scores, e.g.
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piobaireachd. Change this if you want anything apart from my standard format.
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**_template.ly** is a template for new tunes made to be used with the
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**makelily** script.
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**makelily** is a Python script I use to build the music found in the sheet
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music archive on [svenax.net](http://svenax.net/). It automatically generates
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both a PDF and a preview image and puts them in the proper folders. If you
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want to use this script you'll have to configure some path information and
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other stuff first.
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**cheatsheet.ly** and **bagpipe.ly** should be sufficient to let you
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understand how the bagpipe notation works. You will also need the full
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Lilypond documentation, available
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[here](http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/).
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Note: All files *must* be saved in UTF-8 format, at least if you are going to
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use anything but ASCII7, else the output will look like garbage.
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That's it.
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