1 This is the toplevel README to LilyPond -*-Text-*-
4 LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter. The program generates
5 visual or auditive output from a music definition file: it can typeset
6 formatted sheet music to a TeX file and play (mechanical) performances
7 to a MIDI file. Features include multiple staffs, meters, clefs,
8 keys, lyrics, versatile input-language, cadenzas, beams, slurs,
14 if you have downloaded a
18 version, then this is version is *not* meant for producing nice output
19 (but to keep your patchsets up to date). It might not even compile.
24 For the compilation and running of LilyPond you need some additional
25 packages. Please refer to the installation instructions.
30 For your convenience, a formatted copy of the INSTALL instructions are
31 in the toplevel directory, as INSTALL.text
33 The process is fairly straightforward, but chances are that you have
34 to specify directories for TeX to configure (--enable-tex-dir,
39 The real documentation is the directory Documentation/
41 To generate the pretty-printed docs, you have to run configure first,
46 You can also simply read the .pod sources. They are ASCII text.
47 .pod is the documentation format of perl (see perlpod(1))
52 LilyPond is a long way from finished and polished. I do appreciate
53 criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc. Please send e-mail to
54 the mailing lists. See Documentation/links.pod for more info
59 If you have received this file as part of a DOS/Window32 distribution
60 (lilypond-*.zip), then it is advisable to also download the source
61 package, since it might contain more documentation
63 ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/ (Europe)
64 ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/lilypond/ (US)
66 The website also contains the complete documentation
68 http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html
70 If you decide to build LilyPond from source, please read the INSTALL
71 document first, especially the Windows NT/95 section.
76 * Please read the file BUGS for some ugly bugs. This especially applies
77 Linux-Intel unix users.
79 * If you have installed a previous version, be sure to remove old font
82 rm `find /var/lib/texmf/fonts -name 'feta*'`
84 a script to do this for you is in bin/cleanfonts.sh