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