7 This is the toplevel README to LilyPond LilyPond is the GNU
8 Project music typesetter. This program can print beautiful
9 sheet music from a music definition file. It can also play
10 mechanical performances to a MIDI file. Features include
11 multiple staffs, meters, clefs, keys, lyrics, versatile
12 input language, cadenzas, beams, slurs, triplets, formatting
13 scores, part extraction. It includes a nice font of musical
18 if you have downloaded a *.pre* version, then this is
19 version is *not* meant for producing nice output (but to
20 keep your patchsets up to date). It might not even compile.
21 The same goes for a version with a 4th version number, eg
22 1.2.3.mypatch2 It will be safer if you download 1.2.3 or
27 For the compilation and running of LilyPond you need
28 some additional packages. Please refer to the installation
29 instructions. NOTE: If you downloaded a binary (.rpm or a
30 W95/NT .zip file), then you don't have to compile LilyPond.
34 For your convenience, a formatted copy of the INSTALL
35 instructions are in the toplevel directory, as INSTALL.txt
36 The process is fairly straightforward, but chances are that
37 you have to specify directories for to configure: this is
38 done with the options --enable-tex-dir and --enable-mf-dir
42 The real documentation is the directory Documentation/
43 To generate the pretty-printed docs, you have to run config-
44 ure first, and then do this: make doc You can also simply
45 read the .yo sources. They are ASCII text. The complete
46 documentation is accessible in formatted form at the website
47 http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/index.html
51 LilyPond is a long way from finished and polished. We
52 do appreciate criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc.
53 Please send your e-mail to one of the MAILING LISTS and not
54 to us personally. See Documentation/links.yo for more info.
58 If you have received this file as part of a DOS/Win-
59 dow32 distribution (lilypond-*.zip), then it is advisable to
60 also download the source package, since it might contain
63 more documentation ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/ If
64 you decide to build LilyPond from source, please read the
65 INSTALL.txt document first, especially the Windows NT/95
70 * Please read the file BUGS for some ugly bugs. This
71 especially applies Linux-Intel unix users. * If you have
72 installed a previous version, be sure to remove old font
78 rm `find /var/lib/texmf/fonts -name 'feta*'`
83 a script to do this for you is in bin/cleanfonts.sh
86 8: CDROM DISTRIBUTIONS
89 If you have received LilyPond on a cdrom, chances are that
90 development has moved a some patchlevels up. If possible,
91 please check the latest version of LilyPond before reporting