1 Subject: LilyPond 0.1 released - GNU Project music typesetter
12 daughter to Jan 'Janneke' Nieuwenhuizen and Han-Wen 'Wendy'
15 Lily is a healthy, bouncing baby weighing 340 kilobytes
17 Visiting hours: 24hrs a day at
19 ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/lilypond-0.1.0.tar.gz (Europe)
20 ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/lilypond/lilypond-0.1.0.tar.gz (US)
22 You can see some babyfood, diapers and pictures at
24 http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html
26 You can send your congratulations to Janneke (jan@digicash.com) and
27 Wendy (hanwen@stack.nl)
29 [ And now the serious part ]
37 Do you pine for the nice days of Linux 0.95, when men were men and
38 wrote their own applications? Are you without a nice project and just
39 dying to cut your teeth into a bleeding edge application you can
40 modify for your needs? Do you find it frustrating that everything
41 works in LaTeX? No more all-nighters to get a nifty program working?
42 Then this post might be just for you!
44 I have been working very hard on a music typesetting system (called
45 GNU LilyPond) the past half year, and I finally think it is ready to be
46 used and hacked at by a larger public than me and my co-developer.
48 Sources for this project are on:
50 ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/
52 detailed info and examples can be found on the webpage at:
54 http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html
56 It isn't flashy, but then I wasn't born to be a webartist.
59 [DETAILED DESCRIPTION]
63 GNU LilyPond is a program which converts music definition files into
64 visual or auditive output: it can typeset formatted sheet music to a
65 TeX file and and (mechanical) performances to MIDI files.
69 We want to create tools which can produce production quality scores
70 and parts of public music. We haven't quite reached that goal:
72 * The quality of the output isn't good enough yet due to
73 some (still) unsophisticated algorithms
75 * A number of features haven't been implemented (although they can be
80 You can become a user, but we'd really appreciate it you would start
81 hacking at Lily, and help us advance our project more quickly.
85 for compilation you need
87 Unix. (windows32 is known to work, too)
88 GNU C++ v2.7 or better, with libg++ installed.
90 Flex (2.5.1 or better).
91 Bison. (1.25 or better)
98 The MusiXTeX fonts are part of the MusiXTeX package version T.73,
99 available at any CTAN mirror, or http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
101 WHAT CAN LILYPOND DO?
103 ASCII script input (mudela), with identifiers (for music reuse),
104 customizable notenames
106 MIDI output lets you check if you have entered the correct notes.
107 MIDI to Mudela conversion through the mi2mu program.
109 Multiple staffs in one score. Each staff can have a different meters.
110 Multiple voices within one staff (up to four handled graciously);
111 beams optionally shared between voices. Multiple scores within one
112 input file. Each score is output to a different file.
114 Beams, slurs, chords, super/subscripts (accents and text),
115 general n-plet (triplet, quadruplets, etc.), lyrics, transposition
116 dynamics (both absolute and hairpin style), clef changes, meter
117 changes, cadenza-mode, key changes, repeat bars
119 Integration with LaTeX through scripts.