- Grab the installer for your computer platform here: http://lilypond.org/download.html
- Or install with
homebrew cask install lilypond.
Invoke lilypond on cheatsheet.ly. This creates a PDF with all available piping commands and grace notes. Now you can see how to write a crunluath a mach, for instance. This will also let you know if your installation is working properly.
Note: When running Lilypond on a *.ly file, it may seem as if the computer has
stalled. This is normal. Lilypond is doing a lot of calculations, and when
running a large file it may take a minute or so before you get any output.
bagpipe_new.ly is where I try out new commands before they are integrated
into the standard Lilypond distribution. At the moment, all tunes here do work
with the standard bagpipe.ly.
bagpipe_extra.ly contains some special tweaks I don't want in the standard distribution. You can add your own tweaks here too.
header_default.ly sets the heading format. Change this if you want anything apart from my standard format.
header_book.ly sets the heading format for multi-part scores, e.g. piobaireachd. Change this if you want anything apart from my standard format.
cheatsheet.ly and bagpipe.ly should be sufficient to let you understand how the bagpipe notation works. You will also need the full Lilypond documentation, available here.
To generate music like that on http://svenax.net/site/sheetmusic/, you can use this tool.
Note: All files must be saved in UTF-8 format, at least if you are going to use anything but ASCII7, else the output will look like garbage.
That's it.