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+Toplevel README
+***************
+
+1 Toplevel README
+*****************
+
+LilyPond is a music typesetter.  It produces beautiful sheet music using
+a description file as input.  LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.
+
+1.1 Versioning
+==============
+
+LilyPond uses a versioning scheme that easily identifies stable and
+development releases.  In a version "x.y.z", an even second number ’y’
+denotes a stable version.  For development versions ’y’ is odd.
+
+1.2 Downloading
+===============
+
+The primary download site for sourcecode is
+<http://lilypond.org/downloads/>.
+
+1.3 Compilation
+===============
+
+For compiling and running LilyPond see the installation instructions.
+These instructions can be found when you unpack lilypond, as
+‘lilypond-x.y.z/INSTALL.txt’.  They are also available on the web at
+<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL.html>.
+
+1.4 Documentation
+=================
+
+The documentation is available online at <http://lilypond.org/doc/>.
+
+   You can also build it locally: follow the instructions under
+‘Building documentation’ in the installation instructions.
+
+1.5 Comments
+============
+
+Send your criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc.  to the mailing
+list, not to us personally.
+
+   We have the following mailing lists:
+
+   • info-lilypond@gnu.org
+     (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-lilypond) is a
+     low-volume list for information on LilyPond project.  This list is
+     moderated; ask David R. Linn <drl@gnu.org> or Han-Wen
+     <hanwen@xs4all.nl> to send announcements for this list.
+
+   • lilypond-devel@gnu.org
+     (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel) for
+     discussions about developing LilyPond, in particular the unstable
+     series.
+
+   • lilypond-user@gnu.org
+     (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user) for
+     discussions about using LilyPond, in particular the stable series.
+
+   • bug-lilypond@gnu.org
+     (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond) for sending
+     bugreports.
+
+   • lilypond-auto@gnu.org
+     (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-auto) for
+     notifications from the issue tracking systems of LilyPond.
+
+   You can search the lists from our searching facilities
+(http://lilypond.org/search).
+
+1.6 Bugs
+========
+
+Send bug reports to <bug-lilypond@gnu.org>.  For help and questions use
+<lilypond-user@gnu.org>.
+