Editing LilyPond (section)

==Collaboration with other projects==
[[File:AdesteFidelesLilyPhil.png|thumb|300px|First [[bar (music)|measure]]s of ''[[Adeste Fideles]]'', generated by LilyPond.]]
Several graphical [[scorewriter]]s—such as [[Rosegarden]], [[NoteEdit]], Canorus, [[Denemo]], and [[TuxGuitar]]—can export files directly to LilyPond format.  Other graphical applications serve as front ends to LilyPond, including [[Frescobaldi (software)|Frescobaldi]] and the LilyPondTool plugin for [[jEdit]]. [[Denemo]] integrates the [[Portable Document Format|PDF]] output of LilyPond in its display, allowing some editing operations on the final typeset score.

The [[Mutopia Project]], which distributes [[free content]] sheet music, uses LilyPond to typeset its music, as does Musipedia, a collaborative music encyclopedia.

[[Emacs]]' [[org-mode]] contains support for embedding LilyPond scores into documents.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/mjago/ob-lilypond|title=org-babel lilypond language module.|date=December 17, 2018|via=GitHub|access-date=November 30, 2019}}</ref>

OOoLilyPond, a [[LibreOffice]] extension provides support for calling LilyPond to embed scores into documents.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lilypondblog.org/2017/04/ooolilypond-creating-musical-snippets-in-libreoffice-documents/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708211321/http://lilypondblog.org/2017/04/ooolilypond-creating-musical-snippets-in-libreoffice-documents/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 8, 2017 |title=OOoLilyPond: Creating musical snippets in LibreOffice documents |author=Klaus Blum |date=April 18, 2017 |access-date=October 12, 2017 }}</ref>

=== Integration into MediaWiki ===
Lilypond is available in [[MediaWiki]] via the {{self-reference link|:mw:Extension:Score|Score extension}} code.
This, for example, transforms the notation

<syntaxhighlight lang="xml"><score sound="1">\relative c' { 
\key d \major
fis4 fis g a a g fis e d d e fis fis4. e8 e2 }</score></syntaxhighlight>

into

<score sound="1">\relative c' {  
\key d \major
fis4 fis g a a g fis e d d e fis fis4. e8 e2 }</score>

The above is an excerpt from Ludwig van Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, commonly known as "Ode to Joy". More complex scores, including lyrics, are also possible within MediaWiki wikis. {{self-reference inline|See [[Pastime with Good Company]] for an example of this.}}

===Integration into text using <var>lilypond-book</var>===
Integration of LilyPond musical elements into various document formats (both [[TeX]]-based systems such as [[LaTeX]] and [[Texinfo]], and also [[DocBook]] and [[HTML]] pages) is natively supported through the companion program <var>lilypond-book</var>, developed and maintained by the LilyPond community.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://lilypond.org/doc/latest/Documentation/usage/lilypond_002dbook | title = LilyPond Usage manual | author = LilyPond community | year = 1996–2020 }}</ref> This allows users to embed musical elements within texts, such as musicology, song booklets, work sheets for teaching, and school examinations.

===Integration into LaTeX===
For integration into the [[LaTeX]] document preparation system, lyLuaTeX has been developed as a LuaLaTeX package to embed musical elements within texts. It includes features for matching layout and appearance of the musical elements with the surrounding text document.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://muug.ca/mirror/ctan/support/lyluatex/lyluatex.pdf |title=LyLuaTeX 1.0f |last1=Peron |first1=Fr. Jacques  |last2=Liska |first2=Urs |last3=Springuel  |first3=Br. Samuel |date=May 27, 2019 |website=Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) |access-date=April 16, 2020 }}</ref> Music elements may consist of music symbols, song lyrics, guitar chords diagrams, lead sheets, music excerpts, guitar tablatures, or multi-page scores.