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9 @setfilename general.info
10 @settitle LilyPond -- Music notation for everyone
11 @documentencoding UTF-8
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22 @omfcreator Graham Percival and Patrick McCarty
23 @omfdescription General info about the LilyPond music engraving system
24 @omftype program usage
25 @omfcategory Applications|Publishing
31 Copyright @copyright{} 2009 by the authors.
34 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
35 under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
36 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
37 with no Invariant Sections.
38 A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU
39 Free Documentation License''.
47 @top LilyPond... music notation for everyone
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58 @subtitle The music typesetter
59 @titlefont{General Information}
60 @author The LilyPond development team
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67 For LilyPond version @version{}
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73 @c ************************ WEBSITE START ***************
79 ... music notation for everyone
82 @c @imageId{cmws,web-clef-g-eight-alpha.png,Catchy Musical Web Snippet}
83 @imageId{lilylogo,double-lily-modified3,png,LilyPond logo}
84 @c @im ageId{cmws,web-snippet-alpha.png,Catchy Musical Web Snippet}
87 @subheading What is LilyPond?
89 LilyPond is an open-source music engraving program, devoted to
90 producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. This free
91 software brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to
94 @divClass{align-right}
95 Read more in our @ref{Introduction}!
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116 @divId{latestVersion}
117 @subheading Quick links
119 @c TODO: javascript to detect OS and suggest download?
121 @subsubheading Stable
123 @ref{Download, Download 2.12.3}
125 @ref{Manuals, Manuals 2.12.3}
127 @subsubheading Unstable
129 @ref{Development, Download 2.13.2}
131 @ref{Development, Manuals 2.13.2}
140 * Introduction:: Start here to creating sheet music.
141 * Download:: Get LilyPond.
142 * Manuals:: Read The Fine Manuals (RTFM).
143 * Community:: Contact other users.
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