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This web page is dedicated to the distrubution of LilyPond for Windows
NT 4.0. This package is covered under the GNU General Public License
and all of the source and documentation are available on the official
url(LilyPond
Homepage)(http://www.cs.ruu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/index.html).

LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter. This program can print
beautiful sheet music from a music definition file. It can also play
mechanical performances to a MIDI file. Features include multiple
staffs, meters, clefs, keys, lyrics, versatile input language,
cadenzas, beams, slurs, triplets, formatting scores, part
extraction. It includes a nice font of musical symbols.

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Version 1.0.3 is available

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LilyPond uses the code(TeX) package as its rendering engine. code(TeX)
represents the state-of-the-art in computer typesetting. It is used to
generate documentation, article, and book quality output. It is an
assume tool to have in your toolbox.

LilyPond uses a code(Python) script named code(ly2dvi) to render a
professional quality music score. code(Python) is an interpreted,
interactive, object-oriented programming language.  It is often
compared to code(Tcl), code(Perl), code(Scheme) or code(Java).

itemize(
    it()url(code(MiKTeX))(http://www.snafu.de/~cschenk/miktex/)
    it()url(code(Python))(http://www.python.org)
)

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itemize(
    it()lurl(lilypond-1.0.3.zip)
)

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itemize(
  it()link(Download)(download) the distribution.
  it()unzip
  it()Set your path variable for lilypond and TeX 
  description(
    dit(batch file)
      In a batch file you can add the following entry: nl()
      bf(set path=%path%em(LilyPond-dir)\bin;em(MiKTeX-dir)\miktex\bin)
    dit(Windows Environment)
      In the Windows environment you can select
      properties menu of the My Computer icon. Click on
      the environment tag and add the following to the user
      variables path entry. nl()
      bf(em(LilyPond-dir)\bin;em(MiKTeX-dir)\miktex\bin)
   ) nl()
   it() The first installation of LilyPond also requires these
        additional steps:
     description(
       dit(LaTeX geometry package)
       itemize(
         it()url(download)(ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry.zip) the zip file to code(\Temp).
         it()Extract the zip file into the LaTeX package area of
             code(MiKTeX). This will be bf(em(MiKTeX-dir)\tex\latex)
         it()From a Command Prompt change directory into geometry
             directory that was just extracted.
         it()In the geometry directory type bf(latex geometry.ins)
       ) nl()
       dit(Miscellaneous fonts)
       itemize(
         it()In your favorite editor create a file named
             code(cmbx14.mf). Add the following lines: nl()
             bf(design_size=14.4; ) nl()
             bf(input b-cmbx;)
         it()From a Command Prompt copy cmbx14.mf to the public font
             area of MiKTeX: nl()
             bf(copy cmbx14.mf em(MiKTeX-dir)\fonts\source\public\cm\base)
        )
      ) nl()
  it()See the link(Running)(running) instructions below
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itemize(
  it()url(LilyPond Homepage)
	(http://www.cs.ruu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/index.html)
  it()url(LilyPond Ftp Site)(ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/)
  it()url(gnu-music-discuss mail archive)
	(http://jab.org/mail/gnu-music-discuss@gnu.org/)
  it()Please feel free to mail us at url(gnu-music-discuss)
	(mailto:gnu-music-discuss@gnu.org)
)

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