Obies using Lilypond

Our adventures with the best engraving software. Not affiliated with Oberlin College and Conservatory.

Submit your article to Obies using Lilypond!

This blog welcomes submissions from Oberlin students and alumni (and those outside of Oberlin). Students are especially encouraged to make a submission!

The article can be about any topic relating to Lilypond, but topics such as the following are encouraged:

  • What you like the most about Lilypond
  • What you use it for (unique applications are especially welcome)
  • How you figured out a specific problem
  • Tips and tricks

Submission guidelines

First, be sure that you have the rights to the contents of the article and make yourself aware of the creative commons license (if any) of this blog. Also, make sure to double-check this page if you make a submission in the future to see if any guidelines have changed.

Please email your submissions to webmaster@obies-using-lilypond.com.

Include the following things: (Note: subject to change)

  • Write your name exactly as you would like it to be displayed. Put your year of graduation ONLY if you are a student or alumni of Oberlin.
  • (optional) Put a URL that you would like your name to link to. This can be your professional website, an email address (put it in mailto:USERNAME@DOMAIN.TLD format. For example, mailto:webmaster@obies-using-lilypond.com), or other social media page.
  • The title of the article
  • (optional) The subtitle of the article
  • The body text. This must be uploaded as a .txt or .md attachment.
  • (optional) Any images that you want to include. Make sure that the filename of the attachment exactly matches the filename when it is referenced in the body text. Note that I reserve the right to compress images and make them smaller.
  • You can write any special instructions for me in the email.

After the submission I may accept it and post it online as-is, or contact you about any changes or editorial notes that I’ll include, or write you about any concerns that should be addressed.

You can format the body text of the article using the usual markdown syntax, including one, two or three asterisks for italics, bold or bold and italics text, respectively, the markdown format for writing links and images, the sytax for in-line and separate code examples (one or three backtick characters before and after), and the syntax for headers (one or more pound signs).