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/download/'. 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 or Han-Wen 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-cvs@gnu.org (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-cvs) for log files from the autobuild. You can search the lists from our searching facilities (http://lilypond.org/search). 1.6 Bugs ======== Send bug reports to . For help and questions use .