Re: How to get .ly from .pdf

[Aaron Hill]

On 2022-09-07 1:44 am, Paul McKay wrote:
> Hi
> I'm planning to learn Chopin's Prelude Op28 No4. I looked on Imslp and
> found that Mr Snortum has already turned it into .ly. That was going to 
> be
> my next move because I need to add my own fingering and dynamics. On 
> the
> IMSLP page Knute says that the .ly files are included. (I have spotted 
> that
> exporting the lilypond source when making a PDF is an option in
> Frescobaldi.) All the searches I have done just talk about how LilyPond
> exports to PDF. Can someone please tell me how to retrieve such the .ly
> from the .pdf.

There is a separate download link for the source files.

If you expand the entry, you can see the individual preludes and at the 
bottom is "Engraving Files (LilyPond)" [1].

[1]: https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/800964/hfjn


-- Aaron Hill