5 This is a beta version of LilyPond (a music typesetter). This release is
6 preliminary, please do not distribute. Please send your helpful comments and
9 hanwen@stack.urc.tue.nl
13 TeX, the MusixTeX fonts, g++ > v2.7. The "flower" library, which should be
14 available from the same source you got this from.
18 You will need GNU C++ v2.7 or better and GNU make. If you actually
19 want to use this, you'd better use the "speedy" compilation flags in
24 No, you shouldn't. Really. If you're still not discouraged; this is
25 what I type in my xterm:
31 This is what the output looks like over here.
33 hw:~/musix/spacer$ lilypond maartje.ly
34 LilyPond version 0.0.6 compiled on Nov 2 1996 at 01:25:29
35 Parsing ... [maartje.ly]
36 output to lelie.uit...
37 hw:~/musix/spacer$ tex test
38 This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (C version 6.1)
40 Hyphenation patterns for english, dutch, loaded.
41 (lilyponddefs.tex) (lelie.uit) [1] )
42 Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 1964 bytes).
43 Transcript written on test.log.
44 hw:~/musix/spacer$ xdvi test&
51 If LilyPond bombs out, then please recompile using -g, and send a gdb
52 stacktrace of the crash.
57 Use The Source, Luke. If you don't know C++, you can try editing
58 .dstreamrc for copious debugging output.