The music scores in this project are written in .ly
files that must be compiled with LilyPond. For instance, file May-the-force-be-with-you.ly
may be compiled to PDF documents with the LilyPond command line interface lilypond
in a terminal:
$ lilypond May-the-force-be-with-you.ly
GNU LilyPond 2.19.84
Processing `May-the-force-be-with-you.ly'
Parsing...
Interpreting music...[8][16][24][32][32]
Preprocessing graphical objects...
Finding the ideal number of pages...
Fitting music on 1 page...
Drawing systems...
Layout output to `/tmp/lilypond-4vynJY'...
Converting to `May-the-force-be-with-you.pdf'...
Deleting `/tmp/lilypond-4vynJY'...
Success: compilation successfully completed