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+[DRAFT]
+
+       Born  .. 1997,
+
+               Lily
+
+       GNU LilyPond 0.1, daughter to 
+
+       Jan 'Janneke' Nieuwenhuizen and Han-Wen 'Wendy' Nienhuys
+
+Lily is a health baby weighing 330 kilobyte
+
+Visiting hours: 24hrs a day at ftp://, pictures & droppings at http://
+
+Congratulations to janneke & wendy, hanwen@stack.nl, jan@digicash.com
+
+**************************
+
+       I would like to dedicate this program to all friends that
+music got me. Those deserving special mention (In no particular order)
+Esther, Marijke, Heike, Inge, Judith, Hannah, Auke, Ilse, Evelyn,
+Maartje, Suzanne, Ilse (gee, again?), and last (but certainly not
+least) Janneke!
+
+       HW
+
+[misschien wat monieks invoegen?]
+
+**************************
+
+       Announcing
+                       
+       GNU LilyPond
+
+       The Music Typesetter
 
 Do you pine for the nice days of Linux 0.95, when men were men and
 wrote their own applications? Are you without a nice project and just
 dying to cut your teeth into a bleeding edge application you can
-modify for your needs. Do you find it frustrating that everything
+modify for your needs?  Do you find it frustrating that everything
 works in LaTeX?  No more all-nighters to get a nifty program working?
 Then this post might be just for you!
 
 I have been working very hard on a music typesetting system (called
-LilyPond) the past half year, and I finally think it is ready to be
+GNU LilyPond) the past half year, and I finally think it is ready to be
 used and hacked at by a larger public than me and my co-developer.
 
-Sources for this project are on
+Sources for this project are on:
 
        ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/
 
@@ -23,7 +58,7 @@ detailed info and examples can be found on the webpage at:
 
 [DETAILED DESCRIPTION]
 
-WHAT IS LILYPOND
+WHAT IS GNU LilyPond
 
 Technically it is a preprocessor which generates TeX
 (or LaTeX) output which contains information to typeset a musical
@@ -39,38 +74,35 @@ WHAT IS NEEDED?
 
 for compilation you need
 
-       Unix. (Win32 is known to work, too)
+       Unix. (windows32 is known to work, too)
        GNU C++ v2.7 or better, with libg++ installed.
        GNU make. 
        Flex (2.5.1 or better). 
-       Bison.
+       Bison. (1.25 or better)
 
 for running you need
 
        TeX
-       The MusixTeX fonts. (I use those  in MusixTeX T.59)
 
 FEATURES
 
-ASCII script input, with identifiers (for music reuse), customizable
-notenames
+ASCII script input (mudela), with identifiers (for music reuse),
+customizable notenames
 
 MIDI output lets you check if you have entered the correct notes.
 MIDI to Mudela conversion through the mi2mu program.
 
 Multiple staffs in one score. Each staff can have a different meters.
 Multiple voices within one staff; beams optionally shared between
-voices. (well, more than 2 voices won't look pretty --yet.)  Multiple
-scores within one input file. Each score is output to a different
-file.
+voices.  Multiple scores within one input file. Each score is output
+to a different file.
 
-Beams, slurs, chords, super/subscripts (accents and text), triplets,
+Beams, slurs, chords, super/subscripts (accents and text), 
 general n-plet (triplet, quadruplets, etc.), lyrics, transposition
 dynamics (both absolute and hairpin style) clef changes, meter
 changes, cadenza-mode, key changes, repeat bars
 
-
-[Kudos to FSF, all linux hackers, and --of course-- especially
+[Kudos to the FSF, all linux hackers, and --of course-- especially
 GrandMaster Linus T, for the OS and The Announce :-]
 
        Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@stack.nl>