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<h4 class="unnumberedsubsec">Example applications</h4>
<p>We have written LilyPond as an experiment of how to condense the
art of music engraving into a computer program. Thanks to all
that hard work, the program can now be used to perform useful
tasks. The simplest application is printing notes.
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<a href="../f5/lily-98346e13.ly">
<img align="middle"
border="0" src="../f5/lily-98346e13.png" alt="[image of music]">
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<p class="noindent">By adding chord names and lyrics we obtain a lead sheet.
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<img align="middle"
border="0" src="../50/lily-2f1e42d3.png" alt="[image of music]">
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<p>Polyphonic notation and piano music can also be printed. The
following example combines some more exotic constructs.
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<img align="middle"
border="0" src="../9d/lily-a780153a.png" alt="[image of music]">
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<p>The fragments shown above have all been written by hand, but that
is not a requirement. Since the formatting engine is mostly
automatic, it can serve as an output means for other programs that
manipulate music. For example, it can also be used to convert
databases of musical fragments to images for use on websites and
multimedia presentations.
<p>This manual also shows an application: the input format is text,
and can therefore be easily embedded in other text-based formats
such as LaTeX, HTML, or in the case of this manual, Texinfo.
By means of a special program, the input fragments can be replaced
by music images in the resulting PDF or HTML output files. This
makes it easy to mix music and text in documents.
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