3 Keywords: midi notation music typesetting gnu font engraving
4 Subject: GNU LilyPond 1.2 released - The Music Typesetter
6 GNU LilyPond - The Music Typesetter
11 LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter. It transforms a musical
12 description file into beautiful sheet music.
17 Documentation and examples can be found on
19 http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/
24 Sources for this project are on
26 ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/ (Europe)
28 Prepackaged i386 and PPC for both Debian and RedHat are also
34 * Large cleanups, enhanced design and GUILE integration for smaller
35 memory footprint and more flexible code.
37 * Direct output to PostScript (optional), or as GUILE script.
39 * convertors for ABC and MUP formats.
41 * Font: now available as scaleable PostScript. New glyphs: time
42 signature, more note heads.
44 * Enhanced input: semi-automatic beaming, (nested) tuplets, (nested)
45 repeats, automatic staff switching, chordnames.
47 * Grace notes, volta brackets, better spacing, multiple styles for
48 note heads and time signatures, breathing signs, lyric extenders,
49 cross staff beaming and slurring.
51 * --safe option for the paranoid
53 * Exact spacing for text (eg. Lyrics)
55 * mutopia archive is now a separate effort