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11 <a href="#download">Download</a>
13 <a href="Documentation/out-www/faq.html">FAQ</a>
15 <a href="Documentation/out-www/index.html">Documentation</a>
17 <a href="#music">Music archives</a>
19 <a href="#mailing-lists">Mailing lists</a>
21 <a href="Documentation/out-www/CHANGES.txt">News</a>
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29 @unnumberedsec LilyPond -- The GNU Project Music Typesetter
31 @c something breaks on 3.12 f
33 @unnumberedsec What is LilyPond?
35 LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using
36 a high level description file as input. It excels at typesetting
37 classical music, but you can also print pop-songs. With LilyPond we
38 hope to make music publication software available to anyone on the
41 @unnumberedsec Why should I use it?
43 The input to LilyPond is plain text. So, you can use your favorite text
44 editor to enter it, you can put it in mail or embed it in an article like
48 @mudela[fragment,verbatim]
49 \relative c'' { \key c \minor; r8 [c16 b] [c8 g] [as c16 b] [c8 d] | g,4 }
53 The output looks very good: the font and the layout algorithms were
54 inspired by engraved music, so you can expect that same clear and
55 elegant look from your LilyPond output. And if you don't like the
56 looks, you can tweak almost everything.
58 The program also has limited MIDI functionality: you can write MIDI
59 files with lilypond, and we have a simple MIDI to lilypond conversion
62 LilyPond is free software. It is licensed under GNU General Public
63 License, so you can use, modify and redistribute the program with
64 almost no restrictions. LilyPond is part of the
65 @uref{http://www.gnu.org/,GNU Project}.
67 The version numbers are in Linux-kernel style: even numbered versions
68 are `stable'. The webpages for the stable version (1.2) reside
69 @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/lilypond, on the GNU servers}. Big
70 enhancements go into the latest odd numbered version (1.3), whose
71 webpages are on @uref{http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/,Han-Wen's
72 site}. Information on the latest and greatest features can be found in
73 the @uref{Documentation/out-www/CHANGES.txt, Change Log}.
75 If want more information, you can browse the
76 @uref{Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond.html, manual} or other
77 @uref{Documentation/out-www/index.html, documentation}.
84 @unnumberedsec Sheet music
87 If you are interested in sheet music typeset by LilyPond, have a look at
88 the examples included. We have @uref{short-examples.html,short
89 examples} and @uref{long-examples.html,longer examples}. The
90 examples include sound bites in MIDI, pictures in PNG, printable scores
91 in PostScript, and LilyPond input.
93 Others use LilyPond too.
94 @uref{http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Studio/1714/harpsichord.html,John
95 Sankey}, harpsichordist to the internet, is typesetting the complete
96 @uref{http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Studio/1714/scarlattidwn.html,sonatas
97 by Scarlatti}. Jeff Covey, guitar player and overall nice guy, is
98 putting @uref{http://www4.smart.net/~jcovey/scores/,guitar music} on the
99 net. The @uref{http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Mutopia/,Mutopia project} is a
100 large archive of public domain sheet music under construction. Dirk
101 Lattermann also put some works
102 @uref{http://www.alqualonde.de/lilypond.html,on the web}.
107 @unnumberedsec Download
109 If you want to compile LilyPond from source, download here:
111 @item Download stable releases at
112 @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/lilypond/,GNU}
113 @item Download development releases from
114 @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/development/,the source}
115 @item @uref{http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/lilypond/, by http (Canadian
117 @uref{ftp://sca.uwaterloo.ca/pub/, ftp (Canadian mirror)}
119 @uref{ftp://ftp.lilypond.org/pub/LilyPond/,mirror (Europe)}
122 Installing and compiling requires many additional packages, which are
123 listed in the @uref{Documentation/topdocs/out-www/INSTALL.html,
124 installation instructions}.
126 Binaries are available, but are not updated for every version released.
129 @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/RedHat/RPMS/,RedHat-i386 and Linuxppc RPMs:}
131 @uref{ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/tex,
133 @item @uref{http://home.austin.rr.com/jbr/jeff/lilypond/,Windows NT}
138 <a name="mailing-lists">
140 @unnumberedsec Mailing list
142 If you have questions, do write to the mailing lists!
143 (But don't forget to read the @uref{Documentation/out-www/faq.html,
144 Frequently Asked Questions} first.)
148 @item @samp{info-gnu-music@@gnu.org} (@uref{http://www.mail-archive.com/info-gnu-music@@gnu.org,archive})
149 is a moderated list for information on the GNU Music project, to
150 subscribe: send mail with subject "subscribe" to
151 info-gnu-music-request@@gnu.org.
152 This list is moderated; ask
153 @email{drl@@gnu.org, David R. Linn} or
154 @email{hanwen@@cs.uu.nl, Han-Wen} to send announcements for this
158 @item @samp{help-gnu-music@@gnu.org} (@uref{http://www.mail-archive.com/help-gnu-music@@gnu.org,archive}).
159 For help with LilyPond music project. To subscribe: send
160 mail with subject "subscribe" to
161 @email{help-gnu-music-request@@gnu.org}
163 @item @samp{bug-gnu-music@@gnu.org} (@uref{http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-gnu-music@@gnu.org,archive})
164 If you have bugreports, you should send them to this list. If you
165 want to know about bugs, subscribe: send mail with subject "subscribe"
166 to @email{bug-gnu-music-request@@gnu.org}.
169 Please include in your bugreport the version of LilyPond that
170 you experience the problem with, a description of your system and sample
171 input to reproduce the problem. Do not send output files over the list,
172 they tend to be very big and don't help with describing the problem.
175 @item @samp{gnu-music-discuss@@gnu.org} (@uref{http://www.mail-archive.com/gnu-music-discuss@@gnu.org,archive})
176 For discussions concerning LilyPond, to subscribe: send
177 mail with subject "subscribe" to
178 @email{gnu-music-discuss-request@@gnu.org}.
183 If you want to unsubscribe use the same procedure as subscribing, but
184 substitute @code{unsubscribe} where you would put @code{subscribe}.
186 @unnumberedsubsec Webmaster's Disclaimer
188 These pages were entirely created from a @strong{development snapshot}
189 of the LilyPond package. The version of this webpage is printed at the
195 <a href="#download">Download</a>
197 <a href="Documentation/out-www/faq.html">FAQ</a>
199 <a href="Documentation/out-www/index.html">Documentation</a>
201 <a href="#music">Music archives</a>
203 <a href="#mailing-lists">Mailing lists</a>
205 <a href="Documentation/out-www/CHANGES.txt">News</a>