1 This is the toplevel README to LilyPond
4 GNU LilyPond which converts music definition files into visual or
5 audio output: it can typeset formatted sheet music in TeX and
6 and (mechanical) perfomances to MIDI files.
10 LilyPond is known to have a minor bug if you use glibc; we will look into it
11 Please download 0.1.1 when it's available.
13 LilyPond exhibits a g++ bug on Solaris 2.5 (The stack frame gets corrupted by
14 a constructor) if you compile with -O2. We don't know workarounds
19 if you have downloaded a
23 version, then this is version is *not* meant for producing nice output
24 (but to keep your patchsets up to date). It might not even compile.
28 For the compilation and running of LilyPond you need some additional
29 packages. The most unusual one of this are the mf sources to
30 MusixTeX. Please refer to the installation instructions on how to
31 obtain and install them.
35 For your convenience, a formatted copy of the INSTALL instructions are
36 in the toplevel directory, as INSTALL.text
40 Please refer to the directory Documentation/ for the real doco.
42 To generate the pretty-printed docs, you have to run configure first,
47 You can also simply read the .pod sources. They are ASCII text.
51 LilyPond is a long way from finished and polished. I do appreciate
52 criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc. Please send e-mail to
56 info-gnu-music@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
57 help-gnu-music@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
58 bug-gnu-music@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
59 gnu-music-discuss@vuse.vanderbilt.edu,
61 See the man page on what to use for what. Or you can send it directly
62 to us: hanwen@stack.nl, jan@digicash.com.
71 If you have received this file as part of a DOS/Window32 distribution
72 (lilypond-*.zip ), then it is advisable to also download the source
73 package, since it contains the complete documentation
75 ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/ (Europe)
76 ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu/ (US)
78 The website also contains the complete documentation
80 http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html