2 Do you pine for the nice days of Linux 0.95, when men were men and
3 wrote their own applications? Are you without a nice project and just
4 dying to cut your teeth into a bleeding edge application you can
5 modify for your needs. Do you find it frustrating that everything
6 works in LaTeX? No more all-nighters to get a nifty program working?
7 Then this post might be just for you!
9 I have been working very hard on a music typesetting system (called
10 LilyPond) the past half year, and I finally think it is ready to be
11 used and hacked at by a larger public than me and my co-developer.
13 Sources for this project are on
15 ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/
17 detailed info and examples can be found on the webpage at:
19 http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html
21 (it is somewhat lousy, but I have more important things to do).
24 [DETAILED DESCRIPTION]
28 Technically it is a preprocessor which generates TeX
29 (or LaTeX) output which contains information to typeset a musical
30 score. Practically it is a typesetter, which only uses TeX as an
31 output medium. (this is handy because there exist music fonts for TeX)
33 As a bonus, you can also output a MIDI file of what you typed.
35 The input is a script file which is read. The script file is a "music
36 definition", ie, you type the melody as if it is read out loud
40 for compilation you need
42 Unix. (Win32 is known to work, too)
43 GNU C++ v2.7 or better, with libg++ installed.
45 Flex (2.5.1 or better).
51 The MusixTeX fonts. (I use those in MusixTeX T.59)
55 ASCII script input, with identifiers (for music reuse), customizable
58 MIDI output lets you check if you have entered the correct notes.
59 MIDI to Mudela conversion through the mi2mu program.
61 Multiple staffs in one score. Each staff can have a different meters.
62 Multiple voices within one staff; beams optionally shared between
63 voices. (well, more than 2 voices won't look pretty --yet.) Multiple
64 scores within one input file. Each score is output to a different
67 Beams, slurs, chords, super/subscripts (accents and text), triplets,
68 general n-plet (triplet, quadruplets, etc.), lyrics, transposition
69 dynamics (both absolute and hairpin style) clef changes, meter
70 changes, cadenza-mode, key changes, repeat bars
73 [Kudos to FSF, all linux hackers, and --of course-- especially
74 GrandMaster Linus T, for the OS and The Announce :-]
76 Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@stack.nl>
77 Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jan@digicash.com>