: Write some text before music staves in lilypond, like instrument names Is it possible to write some text like "Here is an example of a diatonic whole step" and enter the notes just for a measure length and then keep writing

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version "2.18.2"
layout {
context {
Staff
override TimeSignature.stencil = ##f
override Clef.stencil = ##f
override BarLine.stencil = ##f
}
}
markup {

"Here are three notes"

score { new Staff { b'4 c'' d'' } layout { indent = #0 } }

override #'( line-width . 25 )
override #'( baseline-skip . 1.5 )
override #'( word-space . 0.5 )
override #'( font-size . -3.5 )

wordwrap {
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}

}

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In addition to musarithmia's (very good) answer would just be to provide a ^markup { Here is an example of a diatonic whole step } with a given pitch. The text will be above the pitches instead of before the staff, but this way the whole document will be much more uniform throughout.

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If there will be more words than music, I would recommend only using Lilypond to produce the music parts and writing the text in other software.

You can write in LaTeX or other software and include the Lilypond score as a graphic. You can use pdfcrop or another script to crop the lilypond score image. With LaTeX, you can do this with includegraphics from the graphicx package.

Or, you can use lilypond-book, which automates this process for you.