Org-export: LaTeX--->PDF with multipage #+INCLUDE

Question

I'm new to the #+INCLUDE command, and am using it to assemble a book of sheet music.

At the top of the file I've placed a #+LaTeX_HEADER to use the \fancyhdr package for footers for all the pages in the book. After a few pages of text introduction, I insert sheet music:

#+INCLUDE: "/home/me/music.ly" src lilypond :file output.eps

This does kind of work, but there are about 4 pages of outputted sheet music, and only the first ends up in the exported PDF. Additionally, there is this collision between the sheet music and the footer:

I wonder, on the one hand, if it's possible to get #+INCLUDE to include all of the pages of sheet music within the bounds of the margins of the page---and on the other hand if doing this with Org might be less sensible than directly using LaTeX or Lilypond-book. I'm struggling to get my head around it all, and would appreciate any voices of experience.

Answer 1

It seems that the lilypond file is compiled into a picture that is then included in the latex file by the latex macro \includegraphics which is not supposed to handle multi-page files.

Since you apparently don't want to edit your lilypond files from the org file (you would use src blocks rather than #+INCLUDE:), I would suggest that you:

• convert them to pdf outside of org (lilypond music.ly in a command line shell should create file music.pdf for example),
• include them through \includepdf from the pdfpages latex package.

Here's a minimum working example:

#+TITLE: test include lilypond through includepdf
#+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage{pdfpages}

* intro

bla bla

now the music !

\includepdf[pages=-]{music.pdf}

This turns out to be more of a latex answer than an org one.