1 Keywords: midi notation music typesetting gnu font engraving
2 Subject: GNU LilyPond 1.0 released - The Music Typesetter
4 GNU LilyPond - The Music Typesetter
9 LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter. This program can print
10 beautiful sheet music from a music definition file. It can also play
11 performances to a MIDI file.
14 WHAT'S NEW SINCE VERSION 0.1?
16 * LilyPond now includes a completely new music font: the Feta font.
17 We were quite disappointed with available music fonts, so we rolled
18 our own. We did our best to copy the best symbol designs available,
19 and we think that we've succeeded in doing so. We're proud of the
20 result, and we hope you agree, so go check it out!
22 * More elegant output due to
24 * more sophisticated beam/slur formatting
26 * better line breaking
28 * PostScript output for variable symbols
32 * More robust, flexible and tweakable design
34 * Better MIDI file importing
36 * Easier to use due to better shell scripts and input format
39 * MusixTeX is not needed anymore
47 * Multiple staffs, polyphonic music (more voices on one staff),
50 * Support for full orchestral score: Hara_kiri systems (lines with
51 only rests are automatically skipped), multi-measure rests, bar
52 numbering, brackets at the left.
54 * Optimal beam slopes, slur/notehead collision resolution, dashed
55 slurs. Formatting parameters are runtime tunable
57 * Very beautiful symbols. Variable size symbols generated on the fly
58 as embedded postscript.
62 * Optimal linebreaking, manual intervention possible. Linelength is
65 * Readable yet very fast to type input language. With configurable
66 note names and identifiers. Comes with an emacs-mode
68 * With lots of examples (among others a fragment of Van Beethoven's
69 Coriolan, J.S.Bach Cello Suite II, F. Schubert "Leise flehen meine
72 * Runs on UNIX and Windows-32.
74 * Easy generation of titling.
76 * WWW browsable documentation.
78 * Support for Urtext: separation of modern and original interpretation.
80 * Polyphonic music (with automatic collision resolution)
82 * Spacing and collision resolution of accidentals and syllables is
85 * Internationalisation support (Italian, Dutch)
87 * Multiple font sizes within one piece
89 * Integration with LaTeX and YODL
94 Sources for this project are on
96 ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/ (Europe)
97 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/
99 More detailed info and examples can be found on the webpage at
101 http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html