2 TITLE INFORMATION: This is the toplevel README to LilyPond
4 LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter. This program can print
5 beautiful sheet music from a music definition file. It can also play
6 mechanical performances to a MIDI file. Features include multiple
7 staffs, meters, clefs, keys, lyrics, versatile input language, cadenzas,
8 beams, slurs, triplets, named chords, transposing, formatting scores,
9 part extraction. It includes a nice font of musical symbols.
13 LilyPond uses a versioning scheme similar to the Linux kernel. In a
14 version "x.y.z", an even second number 'y' denotes a stable version.
15 For development versions 'y' is odd. For using straightforward score
16 production, please use the latest stable version. Development versions
17 may not produce good or nice scores.
21 For the compilation and running of LilyPond you need some additional
22 packages. Please refer to the installation instructions.
24 NOTE: If you downloaded a binary (.rpm or a W95/NT .zip file), then
25 you don't have to compile LilyPond.
29 For your convenience, a formatted copy of the INSTALL instructions are
30 in the toplevel directory, as INSTALL.txt
32 The process is fairly straightforward, but chances are that you have
33 to specify directories for TeX to configure: this is done with
34 the options --enable-tex-dir and --enable-mf-dir
38 The real documentation is the directory Documentation/
40 To generate the pretty-printed docs, you have to run configure first,
45 You can also simply read the .yo sources. They are ASCII text.
46 The complete documentation is accessible in formatted form at the
47 website http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/index.html
51 LilyPond is a long way from finished and polished. We do appreciate
52 criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc.
54 Please send your e-mail to one of the MAILING LISTS
56 and not to us personally. See Documentation/links.yo for more info.
60 If you have received this file as part of a DOS/Window32 distribution
61 (LilyPond-*.zip), then it is advisable to also download the source
62 package, since it might contain more documentation
63 ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/
65 If you decide to build LilyPond from source, please read the INSTALL.txt
66 document first, especially the Windows NT/95 section.
70 * Please read the file BUGS for some ugly bugs.
72 * If you have installed a previous version, be sure to remove old font
74 rm `find /var/lib/texmf/fonts -name 'feta*'`
76 a script to do this for you is in buildscripts/clean-fonts.sh
78 8: CDROM DISTRIBUTIONS
80 If you have received LilyPond on a cdrom, chances are that development
81 has moved a some patchlevels up. Please check the latest version of
82 LilyPond before reporting bugs.