Built-in Scheme Functions¶

LilyPond's documentation has a page "Scheme Function", which is here for the current stable version 2.18 and here for the current development version 2.19.

This is a reference of an enormous number of extremely useful functions, namely all those Scheme function starting with ly: that provide an interface with the inner state and workings of LilyPond and a score document. Unfortunately this page is extremely difficult to digest - to a point to being barely usable as more than a reminder of what's available. This is mostly due to the fact that this whole page is generated from "docstrings", concise explanations stored directly in the source code. So if you are feeling dumb when reading the docs be assured that you're not alone. Usually it is only possible to get some value out of it when someone on the lilypond-user mailing list gives you some snippets to digest or to simply insert into your current project.

The purpose of this section of the book is to provide usable explanations of the different Scheme functions, giving you the knowledge that is necessary to successfully make use of that "communication channel" into LilyPond's heart.

{% credits %}{% endcredits %}