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11 @chapter Toplevel README
14 LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music
15 using a description file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU
20 LilyPond uses a versioning scheme that easily identifies stable and
21 development releases. In a version "x.y.z", an even second number 'y'
22 denotes a stable version. For development versions 'y' is odd.
26 The primary download site for sourcecode is
27 @uref{http://lilypond.org/downloads/}.
31 For compiling and running LilyPond see the installation instructions.
32 These instructions can be found when you unpack lilypond, as
33 @file{lilypond-x.y.z/INSTALL.txt}. They are also available on the web
35 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL.html}.
37 @section Documentation
39 The documentation is available online at
40 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/}.
42 You can also build it locally: follow the instructions under `Building
43 documentation' in the installation instructions.
48 Send your criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc. to the mailing
49 list, not to us personally.
52 <a name="mailing-lists">
55 We have the following mailing lists:
58 @item @uref{http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-lilypond,info-lilypond@@gnu.org}
59 is a low-volume list for information on LilyPond project.
60 This list is moderated; ask
61 @email{drl@@gnu.org, David R. Linn} or
62 @email{hanwen@@xs4all.nl, Han-Wen} to send announcements for this
66 @uref{http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel,lilypond-devel@@gnu.org}
67 for discussions about developing LilyPond, in particular the unstable series.
69 @item @uref{http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user,lilypond-user@@gnu.org}
70 for discussions about using LilyPond, in particular the stable series.
72 @item @uref{http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond,bug-lilypond@@gnu.org}
73 for sending bugreports.
75 @item @uref{http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-auto,lilypond-auto@@gnu.org}
76 for notifications from the issue tracking systems of LilyPond.
79 You can search the lists from our @uref{http://lilypond.org/search,
80 searching facilities}.
84 Send bug reports to @email{bug-lilypond@@gnu.org}. For help and
85 questions use @email{lilypond-user@@gnu.org}.