lilypond Command Examples

Typeset music and/or produce MIDI from file. See also: musescore. More information: https://lilypond.org.

• Compile a lilypond file into a PDF:

lilypond {{path/to/file}}

• Compile into the specified format:

lilypond --formats={{format_dump}} {{path/to/file}}

• Compile the specified file, suppressing progress updates:

lilypond -s {{path/to/file}}

• Compile the specified file, and also specify the output filename:

lilypond --output={{path/to/output_file}} {{path/to/input_file}}

• Show the current version of lilypond:

lilypond --version