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
or showFirstLength
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
define mBreak = { }
to remove all those line breaks. This
will allow LilyPond to place line breaks wherever it feels are
best.
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