2 We are proud to announce the birth of "GNU LilyPond 0.1", a.k.a.
8 daughter to Jan 'Janneke' Nieuwenhuizen and Han-Wen 'Wendy'
11 Lily is a healthy, bouncing baby weighing 340 kilobytes
13 Visiting hours: 24hrs a day at
15 ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl,
17 you can see some diapers and pictures at
19 http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html
21 You can send your congratulations to Janneke (jan@digicash.com) and
22 Wendy (hanwen@stack.nl)
26 We would like to dedicate this program to all the friends that we
30 Those deserving special mention (in no particular order):
31 Esther, Marijke, Heike, Inge, Judith, Hannah, Auke, Ilse, Evelyn,
32 Maartje, Suzanne, Ilse (gee, again?), most members of the Eindhovens
33 Jongeren Ensemble and last (but certainly not least) Janneke!
37 That's a nice thought, Wendy. I've got a few too, to spread
38 the credits a bit (Again, no particular order) Michelle, Illushka,
39 Ruth, Eva, Fro/ydis, Monique, Noor, Sascha, Monique, Ilse, Monique,
40 Eva, Roos, Judith, and, of course, Wendy!
46 [ And now the serious part ]
54 Do you pine for the nice days of Linux 0.95, when men were men and
55 wrote their own applications? Are you without a nice project and just
56 dying to cut your teeth into a bleeding edge application you can
57 modify for your needs? Do you find it frustrating that everything
58 works in LaTeX? No more all-nighters to get a nifty program working?
59 Then this post might be just for you!
61 I have been working very hard on a music typesetting system (called
62 GNU LilyPond) the past half year, and I finally think it is ready to be
63 used and hacked at by a larger public than me and my co-developer.
65 Sources for this project are on:
67 ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/
69 detailed info and examples can be found on the webpage at:
71 http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html
73 (it is somewhat lousy, but I have more important things to do).
76 [DETAILED DESCRIPTION]
80 Technically it is a preprocessor which generates TeX
81 (or LaTeX) output which contains information to typeset a musical
82 score. Practically it is a typesetter, which only uses TeX as an
83 output medium. (this is handy because there exist music fonts for TeX)
85 As a bonus, you can also output a MIDI file of what you typed.
87 The input is a script file which is read. The script file is a "music
88 definition", ie, you type the melody as if it is read out loud
92 for compilation you need
94 Unix. (windows32 is known to work, too)
95 GNU C++ v2.7 or better, with libg++ installed.
97 Flex (2.5.1 or better).
98 Bison. (1.25 or better)
106 ASCII script input (mudela), with identifiers (for music reuse),
107 customizable notenames
109 MIDI output lets you check if you have entered the correct notes.
110 MIDI to Mudela conversion through the mi2mu program.
112 Multiple staffs in one score. Each staff can have a different meters.
113 Multiple voices within one staff; beams optionally shared between
114 voices. Multiple scores within one input file. Each score is output
117 Beams, slurs, chords, super/subscripts (accents and text),
118 general n-plet (triplet, quadruplets, etc.), lyrics, transposition
119 dynamics (both absolute and hairpin style) clef changes, meter
120 changes, cadenza-mode, key changes, repeat bars
122 [Kudos to the FSF, all linux hackers, and --of course-- especially
123 GrandMaster Linus T, for the OS-kernel and The Announce :-]
125 Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@stack.nl>
126 Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jan@digicash.com>