5.1.2 Typesetting existing music
If you are entering music from an existing score (i.e., typesetting a piece of existing sheet music),
- Enter one manuscript (the physical copy) system at a time (but still
only one bar per line of text), and
check each system when you finish it. You may use the
showLastLength
orshowFirstLength
properties to speed up processing – see Skipping corrected music. - Define
mBreak = { \break }
and insert\mBreak
in the input file whenever the manuscript has a line break. This makes it much easier to compare the LilyPond music to the original music. When you are finished proofreading your score, you may definemBreak = { }
to remove all those line breaks. This will allow LilyPond to place line breaks wherever it feels are best.