-than the names being similar (:-)
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-.SH "HISTORY"
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-(for a detailed changelog, see \fBNEWS\fP)
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-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)\&.
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-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)\&.
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-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\&.