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LilyPond Syntax

LilyPond Syntax

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Adds support for LilyPond syntax highlighting (including embedded Scheme).
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Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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VSCode LilyPond Syntax

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LilyPond syntax highlighting for VSCode.

Features

  • LilyPond syntax highlighting
    • Including new syntax introduced in LilyPond 2.20
    • Also works in Markdown code blocks
  • Scheme syntax highlighting

Screenshots

Standard LilyPond notation

Real music example

LilyPond Scheme

LilyPond Scheme

Markdown code blocks

Markdown code blocks

Requirements

  • VSCode 1.0.0 or newer

Installation

  • Visual Studio Code Marketplace
  • Open VSX Registry

Build

yarn install
npx vsce package

Release Notes

See here.

Acknowledgements

Based on TrudyFirestone/VSLilyPond.

Grammar from SubLilyPond by Yannis Rammos, copyright © 2013 under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0) license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. See that repository for additional acknowledgements.

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