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-@settitle index
+@settitle LilyPond homepage
@node Top, , , (dir)
@top
+@html
+<p align=center>
+[
+ <a href="#download">Download</a>
+ |
+ <a href="Documentation/out-www/faq.html">FAQ</a>
+ |
+ <a href="Documentation/out-www/index.html">Documentation</a>
+ |
+ <a href="#music">Music archives</a>
+ |
+ <a href="#mailing-lists">Mailing lists</a>
+ |
+ <a href="Documentation/out-www/CHANGES.txt">News</a>
+]
+@end html
+
+@html
+<p align=center>
+<img src="Documentation/pictures/out-www/lelie-logo.png" alt="[logo]">
+@end html
+@unnumberedsec LilyPond -- The GNU Project Music Typesetter
+
+@c something breaks on 3.12 f
+
+@unnumberedsec What is LilyPond?
+
+LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using
+a high level description file as input. It excels at typesetting
+classical music, but you can also print pop-songs. With LilyPond we
+hope to make music publication software available to anyone on the
+internet.
+
+@unnumberedsec Why should I use it?
+
+The input to LilyPond is plain text. So, you can use your favorite text
+editor to enter it, you can put it in mail or embed it in an article like
+this:
-
-@unnumbered LilyPond -- The @uref{http://www.fsf.org/gnu/gnu-history.html,GNU Project} Music Typesetter
-
-@center
@quotation
-@mudela[fragment]
+@mudela[fragment,verbatim]
\relative c'' { \key es; r8 [c16 b] [c8 g] [as c16 b] [c8 d] | g,4 }
@end mudela
@end quotation
-@end center
-@c include BLURB?
+The output looks very good: the font and the layout algorithms were
+inspired by engraved music, so you can expect that same clear and
+elegant look from your LilyPond output. And if you don't like the
+looks, you can tweak almost everything.
-LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music
-using a high level description file as input. LilyPond is part of
-the GNU Project.
+The program also has limited MIDI functionality: you can write MIDI
+files with lilypond, and we have a simple MIDI to lilypond conversion
+tool, @file{midi2ly}.
-@c include screenshot
+LilyPond is free software. It is licensed under GNU General Public
+License, so you can use, modify and redistribute the program with
+almost no restrictions. LilyPond is part of the
+@uref{http://www.gnu.org/,GNU Project}.
+The version numbers are in Linux-kernel style: even numbered versions
+are `stable'. The webpages for the stable version (1.2) reside at GNU,
+here: @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/lilypond}. Big enhancements go
+into the latest odd numbered version (1.3), whose webpages are on
+ @uref{http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/,Han-Wen's site}.
+If want more information, you can browse the
+@uref{Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond.html, manual} or other
+@uref{Documentation/out-www/index.html, documentation}.
-@unnumberedsec Sheet music
-
-@itemize @bullet
+@unnumberedsec News
-@item @uref{./input/out-www/index.html,Examples}:
+For the latest and greatest features, check out the
+@uref{Documentation/out-www/CHANGES.txt, Change Log}.
-simple pieces, tests and bugs. MIDI, PNG, PostScript, and Source.
-@item @uref{./mutopia/out-www/index.html,Music in Mutopia}:
+@html
+<a name="music">
+@end html
+@unnumberedsec Sheet music
-LilyPond handling real music. MIDI, view PNG, PostScript, and Source.
-@end itemize
-@unnumberedsec Documentation
-
+If you are interested in sheet music typeset by LilyPond, have a look at
+the examples included. We have @uref{short-examples.html,short
+examples} and @uref{long-examples.html,longer examples}. The
+examples include sound bites in MIDI, pictures in PNG, printable scores
+in PostScript, and LilyPond input.
+
+Others use LilyPond too.
+@uref{http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Studio/1714/harpsichord.html,John
+Sankey}, harpsichordist to the internet, is typesetting the complete
+@uref{http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Studio/1714/scarlattidwn.html,sonatas
+by Scarlatti}. Jeff Covey, guitar player and overall nice guy, is
+putting @uref{http://www4.smart.net/~jcovey/scores/,guitar music} on the
+net. The @uref{http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Mutopia/,Mutopia project} is a
+large archive of public domain sheet music under construction. Dirk
+Lattermann also put some works
+@uref{http://www.alqualonde.de/lilypond.html,on the web}.
+
+@html
+<a name="download">
+@end html
+@unnumberedsec Download
+If you want to compile LilyPond from source, download here:
@itemize @bullet
-@item @uref{Documentation/tex/out-www/tutorial.html,Tutorial}
-@item @uref{Documentation/tex/out-www/reference-manual.html,Tutorial}
-@item @uref{Documentation/out-www/faq.html,FAQ}
-@item @uref{Documentation/out-www/mail.html,Mailing Lists}
-@item @uref{Documentation/out-www/index.html,All of the LilyPond documentation}
-@item @uref{./docxx/index.html,The DOC++ documentation of the C++ sources.}
-@item @uref{Documentation/topdocs/out-www/INSTALL.html,The installation instructions}
+@item Download stable releases at
+@uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/lilypond/}
+@item Download development releases at
+@uref{ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/development/}
+@item Canadian mirror @uref{http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/lilypond/} and @uref{ftp://sca.uwaterloo.ca/pub/}
+@item Another site in Europe
+@uref{ftp://ftp.lilypond.org/pub/LilyPond/}
@end itemize
-@unnumberedsec Sites
-
+Installing and compiling requires many additional packages, which are
+listed in the @uref{Documentation/topdocs/out-www/INSTALL.html,
+installation instructions}.
+Binaries are available, but are not updated for every version released.
@itemize @bullet
-@item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/...} LilyPond is part of the GNU
-project. The webpages for the stable version reside at GNU.
-
-@item @uref{http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/} Han-Wen's site
-has the development pages.
-@item @uref{http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/lilypond/} Eric's mirror
-@item @uref{http://home.austin.rr.com/jbr/jeff/lilypond/} Jeff's Windows NT Distribution site
+@item RedHat-i386 and Linuxppc RPMs:
+@uref{ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/RedHat/RPMS/}
+@item Debian binary @uref{ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/tex}
+@item Windows NT: @uref{http://home.austin.rr.com/jbr/jeff/lilypond/}
@end itemize
-@unnumberedsec NEWS
-
-This is what the latest version brings:
-@example
+@html
+<a name="mailing-lists">
+@end html
+@unnumberedsec Mailing list
-top_of_NEWS
-
-@end example
+If you have questions, do write to the mailing lists!
+ (But don't forget to read the @uref{Documentation/out-www/faq.html,
+Frequently Asked Questions} first.)
-@unnumberedsec Download
-@itemize @bullet
-@item @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/development/}
-@item @uref{http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/lilypond/}
- Eric Praetzel was kind enough to provide a mirror of both the website
- and the ftp site.
-@item @uref{ftp://ftp.lilypond.org/pub/LilyPond/}
- A mirror of the FTP site. Updated at 0:00 MET daily.
-@item @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/RedHat/RPMS/} RedHat binary
-@item @uref{ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/tex} Debian binary
-@item @uref{http://home.austin.rr.com/jbr/jeff/lilypond/} Windows NT binary
-@item @uref{http://linux.umbc.edu/software/lilypond/rpms/} i386 RPM.
-@item @uref{ftp://freshmeat.net/pub/rpms/lilypond/} i386 RPM.
-@end itemize
+@table @samp
+@item info-gnu-music@@gnu.org
+ is a moderated list for information on the GNU Music project, to
+ subscribe: send mail with subject "subscribe" to
+ info-gnu-music-request@@gnu.org.
-@unnumberedsubsec Webmaster's Disclaimer
+ This list is moderated; ask
+ @email{drl@@gnu.org, David R. Linn} or
+ @email{hanwen@@cs.uu.nl, Han-Wen} to send announcements for this
+list.
+
+ This list is archived at
+ @uref{http://www.mail-archive.com/info-gnu-music@@gnu.org}
+
+@item help-gnu-music@@gnu.org
+ For help with LilyPond music project. To subscribe: send
+ mail with subject "subscribe" to
+ @email{help-gnu-music-request@@gnu.org} The archive is at
+ @uref{http://www.mail-archive.com/help-gnu-music@@gnu.org}.
+
+@item bug-gnu-music@@gnu.org
+ If you have bugreports, you should send them to this list. If you
+want to know about bugs, subscribe: send mail with subject "subscribe"
+to @email{bug-gnu-music-request@@gnu.org}. The archive is at
+@uref{http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-gnu-music@@gnu.org}
-These pages were entirely created from the LilyPond package-sources.
-Sorry for poor look they have: we want to be hacking at LilyPond, and
-not at the webpages. If you want to volunteer for making shazzy
-webpages, then please mail us!
+ Please include in your bugreport the version of LilyPond that
+you experience the problem with, a description of your system and sample
+input to reproduce the problem. Do not send output files over the list,
+they tend to be very big and don't help with describing the problem.
-Note: These pages are created from the latest @strong{development snapshots}
-of LilyPond, specifically, this page was made from LilyPond
-(fixme-version).tar.gz
-Note: the pages may have been created from an unreleased development
-version. Please have patience, all changes will appear in the
-official version.
+@item gnu-music-discuss@@gnu.org,
+ For discussions concerning LilyPond, to subscribe: send
+ mail with subject "subscribe" to
+ @email{gnu-music-discuss-request@@gnu.org}
+ The archive is at
+ @uref{http://www.mail-archive.com/gnu-music-discuss@@gnu.org}
+@end table
+
+If you want to unsubscribe use the same procedure as subscribing, but
+substitute @code{unsubscribe} where you would put @code{subscribe}.
+
+@unnumberedsubsec Webmaster's Disclaimer
+
+These pages were entirely created from a @strong{development snapshots}
+of the LilyPond package. The version of this webpage is printed at the
+bottom.
+
+@html
+<p align=center>
+[
+ <a href="#download">Download</a>
+ |
+ <a href="Documentation/out-www/faq.html">FAQ</a>
+ |
+ <a href="Documentation/out-www/index.html">Documentation</a>
+ |
+ <a href="#music">Music archives</a>
+ |
+ <a href="#mailing-lists">Mailing lists</a>
+ |
+ <a href="Documentation/out-www/CHANGES.txt">News</a>
+]
+@end html
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