Re: embed-source-code

[Aaron Hill]

On 2019-12-13 4:35 am, Thomas Morley wrote:
> I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit
> LilyPond 2.19.83 or any other version
> For viewing PDF I use evince or FoxitReader.
>
> I've never seen any source-code anywhere
> Apart from the cited sentence from the Usage Manual there is no
> documentation, no regtest, nothing.
> Obviously I've no clue what to do.
>
> It may be that this feature isn't what I want at all, though without
> having it working I can't judge.
>
> What I really want Is to print the source-code of my file at the top
> of the generated image.
> For now I try to modify verbatim-file-markup to be a
> markup-list-command and to create other commands to select, delete,
> format it as I like.

The feature embeds the source as an *attachment* within the PDF.  I 
would assume both evince and Foxit know how to handle attachments.

But it sounds like this is not what you need.  Rather, what would be 
nice is to have something like Knuth's CWEB for beautifully formatting 
LilyPond syntax for print.


-- Aaron Hill