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INTRODUCTION

This is a beta version of LilyPond (a music typesetter). This release is
preliminary, please do not distribute. Please send your helpful comments and
patches to me, 

  hanwen@stack.urc.tue.nl

PREREQUISITES

TeX, the MusixTeX fonts, g++ > v2.7. The "flower" library, which should be
available from the same source you got this from.

COMPILING

You will need GNU C++ v2.7 or better and GNU make.  If you actually
want to use this, you'd better use the "speedy" compilation flags in
the Makefile.

USING

No, you shouldn't. Really. If you're still not discouraged; this is
what I type in my xterm:

	lilypond maartje.ly
	tex test
	xdvi test&

This is what the output looks like over here.

hw:~/musix/spacer$ lilypond maartje.ly
LilyPond version 0.0.6 compiled on Nov  2 1996 at 01:25:29
Parsing ... [maartje.ly]
output to lelie.uit...
hw:~/musix/spacer$ tex test
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (C version 6.1)
(test.tex
Hyphenation patterns for english, dutch, loaded.
(lilyponddefs.tex) (lelie.uit) [1] )
Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 1964 bytes).
Transcript written on test.log.
hw:~/musix/spacer$ xdvi test&
[1] 3130
hw:~/musix/spacer$ 


PROBLEMS

If LilyPond bombs out, then please recompile using -g, and send a gdb
stacktrace of the crash.


HOW DOES IT WORK

Use The Source, Luke. If you don't know C++, you can try editing
.dstreamrc for copious debugging output.