=head1 NAME lilypond - the GNU music typesetter =head1 SYNOPSIS lilypond [options] [inputfiles] =head1 DESCRIPTION LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter. The program generates visual or auditive output from a music definition file: it can typeset formatted sheet music to a TeX file and play (mechanical) performances to a MIDI file. =head1 OPTIONS =over 5 =item B<-I,--include>=F, add F to the search path for input files. =item B<-M,--midi> This disables TeX output. If you have a \midi definition, it will do the midi output only. =item B<-d,--debug>, Turn debugging info on. GNU LilyPond reads the file F<.dstreamrc>, which lists what functions and classes may produce copious debugging output. =item B<-t,--test>, Switch on any experimental features. Not for general public use. =item B<-w,--warranty>, Show the warranty with which GNU LilyPond comes. (It comes with B!) =item B<-o,--output=>F, Set the default output file to F. =item B<-h,--help>, Show a summary of usage. =item B<-i,--init=>F, Set init file to F (default: F). =item B<--include, -I>=F, Add F to the search path for input files. =item B<--ignore-version, -V>, Make incompatible mudela version non-fatal. =back =head1 FEATURES This is an overview of the features that GNU LilyPond supports. For details on how to use them, you should consult mudela(5). =over 5 =item * ASCII script input, with identifiers (for music reuse), customizable notenames, customisable fontset. =item * MIDI output lets you check if you have entered the correct notes. =item * MIDI to Mudela conversion through the mi2mu program. =item * Multiple staffs in one score. Each staff can have different meters. =item * Beams, slurs, ties, chords, super/subscripts (accents and text) triplets, general n-plet (triplet, quadruplets, etc.), lyrics, transposition dynamics (both absolute and hairpin style). =item * Multiple voices within one staff; beams optionally shared between voices. Up to four voices is handled cleanly. =item * Multiple scores within one input file. Each score is output to a different file. =item * Clef changes, meter changes, cadenza-mode, key changes, repeat bars. =back =head1 DISCLAIMER AND COPYING POLICY GNU LilyPond is copyright 1996, 1997 by its authors. GNU LilyPond is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. GNU LilyPond is provided without any warranty what so ever. GNU LilyPond may be freely distributed. For further information consult the GNU General Public License, from the file F. =head1 AUTHORS Please consult the documentation file AUTHORS for more detailed information, and small contributions. =over 4 =item * Han-Wen Nienhuys , http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen =item * Jan Nieuwenhuizen , http://www.digicash.com/~jan. =back =head1 PROBLEMS There is an extensive list of todoes and bugs. See F. In general, try to find out =over 4 =item * If the bug has been fixed in a newer release. =item * If the bug has been found earlier, consult F and F. =back If you have found a bug, then you should send a bugreport. =over 4 =item * Send a copy of the input which causes the error. =item * Send a description of the platform you use. =item * Send a description of the LilyPond version you use (with compile/configure options please). =item * Send a description of the bug itself. =item * Send it to bug-gnu-music@vuse.vanderbilt.edu. =back It does help if you can find out where the bug comes from: if GNU LilyPond bombs out, then please recompile using with debugging info turned on, and send gdb stacktrace of the crash. It also helps if you can print the values of the objects. So if your trace is received SIGSEGV (gdb) backtrace 12 #0 Interval::operator+= (this=0x11fffec60..) at ../flower/interval.hh:50 #1 0x12005195c in Item::width (this=0x14008a680) at src/item.cc:39 #2 0x12008fdbc in itemlist_width (its=0x11fffed58 .. : : Than it would help if you send a dump of the Interval and the Item (use: C or use LilyPond C methods). =head1 FILES =over 5 =item F The initialisation file with symbol tables etc. It includes files from the directory F. =back =head1 ENVIRONMENT B an (one) additional directory for finding lilypond data. =head1 BUGS Lots of them. See F and F =head1 SEE ALSO =over 4 =item lilygut On technical details of LilyPond =item mudela-man On the input format. This is a LilyPond-enhanced LaTeX document. =item MANIFESTO Goals of the GNU LilyPond project. =item FAQ The GNU LilyPond FAQ list =item http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html GNU LilyPond has her own webpage. This webpage contains the MIDI, GIF and PS files for some standard music files. It also has the complete LilyPond documentation =back GNU LilyPond is updated very frequently, the latest version is always available at: ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond and ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/lilypond/ For programs which are part of the GNU music project, the following mailing list have been setup: =over 4 =item info-gnu-music@vuse.vanderbilt.edu For information on the GNU Music project, to subscribe: send mail with subject "subscribe" to info-gnu-music-request@vuse.vanderbilt.edu =item help-gnu-music@vuse.vanderbilt.edu For help with programs from the GNU music project. To subscribe: send mail with subject "subscribe" to help-gnu-music-request@vuse.vanderbilt.edu =item bug-gnu-music@vuse.vanderbilt.edu If you have bugreports, you should send them to this list. If you want to read all bugreports, you should subscribe to this list. To subscribe: send mail with subject "subscribe" to bug-gnu-music-request@vuse.vanderbilt.edu =item gnu-music-discuss@vuse.vanderbilt.edu, For discussions concerning the GNU Music project, to subscribe: send mail with subject "subscribe" to gnu-music-discuss-request@vuse.vanderbilt.edu, =back Announces of new versions will be sent to info-gnu-music and gnu-music-discuss. =head1 REMARKS GNU LilyPond has no connection with the music package Rosegarden, other than the names being similar :-) =head1 HISTORY (for a detailed changelog, see F) GNU LilyPond's roots lie in MPP, a preprocessor to the rather arcane MusiXTeX macro package for TeX. A friend of mine, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote the first 44 versions (0.01 to 0.44), then his program caught my attention, and I was slowly sucked in to the interesting problem of easily producing beautifully printed music. I contributed some code. We soon realised that MPP's design was too fundamentally broken to be repaired, so it was decided to rewrite MPP. We debated a lot about the requirements to an inputformat (fall 1995). I sat down and started with a parser-first, bottom-up rewrite called mpp95 (which totally failed, obviously). After long and hard thinking, I came up with an algorithm for the horizontal spacing of multiple staffs (april 1996) I coded it (and did not test it). After starting with this fundamental piece, I slowly added the stages which come before spacing, and after. A half year later, I had a first working version, (october 1996). I announced Patchlevel 0.0.7 (or 8) to the mutex list after asking some technical details on spacing; it was downloaded approximately 4 times. Then I got the hang of it, and in the subsequent two months, I coded until it had doubled in size (pl 23). Most the other history is described in the NEWS file. The first large scale release (0.1) was done after approximately 78 patchlevels on August 1, 1997.