4 Keywords: midi notation music typesetting gnu font engraving
5 Subject: GNU LilyPond 1.2 released - The Music Typesetter
7 GNU LilyPond - The Music Typesetter
12 LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter.
14 LilyPond produces beautiful sheet music using a high level description
20 Documentation and examples can be found on
22 http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/
27 Sources for this project are on
29 ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/v1.2/ (Europe)
30 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/lilypond/
32 Prepackaged i386 and PPC packages for both Debian and RedHat GNU are
38 * Large cleanups, enhanced design and GUILE integration for smaller
39 memory footprint and more flexible code.
41 * Direct output to PostScript (optional), PDFTeX or as GUILE script
42 (default output still to plain TeX).
44 * Convertors for ABC and MUP formats.
46 * Font: now available as scalable PostScript. New glyphs: time
47 signature, more note heads.
49 * Enhanced input: semi-automatic beaming, (nested) tuplets, (nested)
50 repeats, chordnames, automatic Lyrics durations.
52 * Grace notes, volta brackets, multiple styles for note heads and
53 time signatures, breathing signs, lyric extenders, cross staff
56 * --safe option for the paranoid.
58 * More elegant spacing. Text is spaced exactly.