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3 @settitle LilyPond homepage
10 <img src="Documentation/pictures/out-www/lelie-logo.png" alt="[logo]">
14 @unnumberedsec What is LilyPond? What can it do for you?
16 LilyPond prints beautiful sheet music. It produces music notation from
17 a description file. It excels at typesetting classical music, but you
18 can also print pop-songs.
20 LilyPond input is @b{plain text}. So, you can use your favorite text
21 editor to enter it, you can put it in mail or embed it in an article like
24 @lilypond[fragment,verbatim, relative 1]
25 \key c \minor r8 c16 b c8 g as c16 b c8 d | g,4
28 Or you can use it to print music from other programs, using one of the
29 numerous input filters.
31 LilyPond output looks @b{beautiful}. The font and the layout algorithms
32 were inspired by engraved music, so you can expect that same clear and
33 elegant look from your LilyPond output. And if anything is not to your
34 liking, you can tweak almost everything.
36 LilyPond is @b{free software}. It is part of the
37 @uref{http://www.gnu.org/,GNU Project}. It is licensed under GNU General
38 Public License, so you can use, modify and redistribute the program with
39 almost no restrictions.
41 @unnumberedsec Want to know more?
43 If you want to know more, visit the
44 @uref{Documentation/out-www/index.html, documentation page}. If you want
45 to see some sheet music, then have a look at the examples: we have
46 @uref{short-examples.html,short examples} and
47 @uref{long-examples.html,longer examples}. For even more sheet music,
48 head over to @uref{http://www.mutopiaproject.org, the mutopia project}.