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The Program Reference documentation contains a lot of information about LilyPond, but even more information can be gathered from looking at the internal LilyPond files.
Some default settings (such as the definitions for
\header{}s) are stored as .ly files. Other
settings (such as the definitions of markup commands) are
stored as .scm (Scheme) files. Further explanation is
outside the scope of this manual; users should be warned that
a substantial amount of technical knowledge or time is required
to understand these files.
cd into this directory from the
Terminal, or control-click on the LilyPond application and select
"Show Package Contents".
The ly/ and scm/ directories will be of
particular interest. Files such as ly/property-init.ly and
ly/declarations-init.ly define all the common tweaks.
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This page is for LilyPond-2.10.33 (stable-branch).