5 Keywords: midi notation music typesetting gnu font engraving
6 Subject: GNU LilyPond 1.2 released - The Music Typesetter
8 GNU LilyPond - The Music Typesetter
13 LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter.
15 LilyPond produces beautiful sheet music using a high level description
21 Documentation and examples can be found on
23 http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/
28 Sources for this project are on
30 ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/ (Europe)
33 Prepackaged i386 and PPC packages for both Debian and RedHat GNU are
39 * Large cleanups, enhanced design and GUILE integration for smaller
40 memory footprint and more flexible code.
42 * Direct output to PostScript (optional), PDFTeX or as GUILE script
43 (default output still to plain TeX).
45 * Convertors for ABC and MUP formats.
47 * Font: now available as scalable PostScript. New glyphs: time
48 signature, more note heads.
50 * Enhanced input: semi-automatic beaming, (nested) tuplets, (nested)
51 repeats, automatic staff switching, chordnames, automatic Lyrics
54 * Grace notes, volta brackets, multiple styles for note heads and
55 time signatures, breathing signs, lyric extenders, cross staff
58 * --safe option for the paranoid.
60 * More elegant spacing. Text is spaced exactly.