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3 @settitle Toplevel README
8 @chapter Toplevel README
11 LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music
12 using a description file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU
17 LilyPond uses a versioning scheme similar to the Linux kernel. In a
18 version "x.y.z", an even second number 'y' denotes a stable version.
19 For development versions 'y' is odd.
23 The primary download site for sourcecode is
24 @uref{ftp://ftp.lilypond.org/pub/LilyPond/}.
26 If you have a slow connection, then you are advised to use
27 @uref{http://sourceforge.net/projects/xdelta/,xdelta} for patching
28 source archives; Xdelta (@file{.xd}) files are supplied on the FTP site.
32 For compiling and running LilyPond please refer to the installation
33 instructions. These instructions can be found when you unpack
34 lilypond, as @file{lilypond-x.y.z/INSTALL.txt}. They are also
35 available on the web at
36 @uref{http://lilypond.org/Documentation/topdocs/out-www/INSTALL.html}.
38 NOTE: If you downloaded a binary (@file{.rpm}) or use the Cygwin
39 @file{setup.exe} program, then you don't have to compile LilyPond.
42 @section Documentation
44 The documentation is available online at
45 @uref{http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v1.9/Documentation/out-www/}.
47 You can also build it locally: follow the instructions under `Building
48 documentation' in the installation instructions.
53 Send your criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc. to the mailing
54 list, not to us personally.
57 <a name="mailing-lists">
60 We have the following mailing lists:
63 @item @uref{http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-lilypond,info-lilypond@@gnu.org}
64 is a low-volume list for information on LilyPond project.
65 This list is moderated; ask
66 @email{drl@@gnu.org, David R. Linn} or
67 @email{hanwen@@cs.uu.nl, Han-Wen} to send announcements for this
71 @uref{http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel,lilypond-devel@@gnu.org}
72 for discussions about developing LilyPond, in particular the unstable series.
74 @item @uref{http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user,lilypond-user@@gnu.org}
75 for discussions about using LilyPond, in particular the stable series.
77 @item @uref{http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond,bug-lilypond@@gnu.org}
78 for sending bugreports.
80 @item @uref{http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-cvs,lilypond-cvs@@gnu.org}
81 for commit messages in CVS development. This is a high-volume moderated
85 You can search the lists from the following page:
86 @uref{http://lilypond.org/search, searching facilities}.
90 If you have installed a previous version, be sure to remove old font
94 rm `find /var/lib/texmf/fonts -name 'feta*'`
97 a script to do this is left after compiling in
98 @file{buildscripts/out/clean-fonts}.
102 Send bug reports to @email{bug-lilypond@@gnu.org}. For help and
103 questions use @email{lilypond-user@@gnu.org}.