5 Keywords: midi notation music typesetting gnu font engraving
6 Subject: GNU LilyPond 1.2 released - The Music Typesetter
8 GNU LilyPond - The Music Typesetter
13 LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter. It transforms a musical
14 description file into beautiful sheet music.
19 Documentation and examples can be found on
21 http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/
26 Sources for this project are on
28 ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/ (Europe)
30 Prepackaged i386 and PPC for both Debian and RedHat are also
36 * Large cleanups, enhanced design and GUILE integration for smaller
37 memory footprint and more flexible code.
39 * Direct output to PostScript (optional), or as GUILE script.
41 * convertors for ABC and MUP formats.
43 * Font: now available as scaleable PostScript. New glyphs: time
44 signature, more note heads.
46 * Enhanced input: semi-automatic beaming, (nested) tuplets, (nested)
47 repeats, automatic staff switching, chordnames.
49 * Grace notes, volta brackets, better spacing, multiple styles for
50 note heads and time signatures, breathing signs, lyric extenders,
51 cross staff beaming and slurring.
53 * --safe option for the paranoid
55 * More elegant spacing. Text is spaced exactly.
57 * The Mutopia archive is now a separate effort