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10 @settitle LilyPond -- Music notation for everyone
11 @documentencoding UTF-8
15 @c `Web' was imported 2009-08-05 with git commit b938d71...
16 @c @macro copyrightDeclare
17 @c Copyright @copyright{} 2009 by the authors.
26 @c don't remove this comment.
28 @omfcreator Graham Percival and Patrick McCarty
29 @omfdescription General info about the LilyPond music engraving system
30 @omftype program usage
31 @omfcategory Applications|Publishing
36 Copyright @copyright{} 2009 by the authors.
39 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
40 document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
41 Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software
42 Foundation; with no Invariant Sections. A copy of the license is
43 included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation
52 @top LilyPond... music notation for everyone
56 @c hack for texi2html, bleh -gp
63 @subtitle The music typesetter
64 @titlefont{General Information}
65 @author The LilyPond development team
67 @vskip 0pt plus 1filll
72 For LilyPond version @version{}
75 @c end hack for texi2html
78 @c ************************ WEBSITE START ***************
84 ... music notation for everyone
87 @c @imageId{cmws,web-clef-g-eight-alpha.png,Catchy Musical Web Snippet}
88 @imageId{lilylogo,double-lily-modified3,png,LilyPond logo}
89 @c @im ageId{cmws,web-snippet-alpha.png,Catchy Musical Web Snippet}
92 @subheading What is LilyPond?
94 LilyPond is an open-source music engraving program, devoted to
95 producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. This free
96 software brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to
99 @divClass{align-right}
100 Read more in our @ref{Introduction}!
111 @c TODO: generate this automatically, including RSS feed.
112 @include web/news-front.itexi
114 @divClass{float-right}
125 @divId{latestVersion}
126 @subheading Quick links
128 @c TODO: javascript to detect OS and suggest download?
130 @subsubheading Stable
132 @ref{Download, Download @versionStable}
134 @ref{Manuals, Manuals @versionStable}
136 @subsubheading Unstable
138 @ref{Development, Download @versionDevel}
140 @ref{Development, Manuals @versionDevel}
150 * Introduction:: Start here to creating sheet music.
151 * Download:: Get LilyPond.
152 * Manuals:: Read The Fine Manuals (RTFM).
153 * Community:: Contact other users.
162 @c ****************** GENERAL STUFF FOR INFO ************
164 Distributions will want to install lilypond.info in postinstall, doing:
166 install-info --info-dir=/usr/share/info out[-www]/lilypond-web.info
168 * Prepend GNU for dir, must be unique.
170 * Do not list the `lilypond' node at toplevel, so that `info lilypond'
173 * List all commands in direntry.
175 @c * lilypond: (lilypond-application)Running LilyPond. Invoking the
179 @c Info files are no longer installed in a subdirectory, images are
180 @c expected to be found in lilypond/ subdirectory.
181 @dircategory GNU LilyPond --- the music typesetter
183 * LilyPond Learning Manual: (lilypond-learning). Start here.
184 * Music Glossary: (music-glossary). For non-English users.
185 * LilyPond: (lilypond-notation). LilyPond Notation Reference.
186 * LilyPond Snippets: (lilypond-snippets). Short tricks, tips, and examples.
187 * LilyPond Internals Reference: (lilypond-internals). Definitions for tweaking.
188 * LilyPond Application Usage: (lilypond-application). Installing and running applications.
189 * LilyPond Website: (lilypond-general). Preview of new website.
190 * abc2ly: (lilypond-application)Invoking abc2ly. Importing ABC.
191 * convert-ly: (lilypond-application)Updating files with convert-ly. Older LilyPond versions.
192 * etf2ly: (lilypond-application)Invoking etf2ly. Importing Finale.
193 * lilypond-book: (lilypond-application)LilyPond-book. Integrating text and music.
194 * midi2ly: (lilypond-application)Invoking midi2ly. Importing MIDI.
195 * musicxml2ly: (lilypond-application)Invoking musicxml2ly. Importing MusicXML.
199 @c FIXME: this still doesn't solve the broken links in pdf and big
200 @c html; we'll need a bunch of @iftext and stuff in here. -gp
201 @c ****************** SPECIAL MACROS FOR WEB MANUAL ************
202 @macro docLinks{name,base,refLink,split,big,bigsize,pdf,pdfsize}
205 @docLinksBare{\name\,\base\,\refLink\,\split\,\big\,\bigsize\,\pdf\,\pdfsize\}
210 @macro docLinksBare{name,base,refLink,split,big,bigsize,pdf,pdfsize}
212 @divClass{keep-bullets}
216 @item @uref{../\base\/index.html, \name\ (split HTML)}:
221 the manual is split between many HTML pages.
222 @*@ @ @emph{(small download for each page)}
225 @item @uref{../\base\-big-page.html, \name\ (big HTML)}:
230 read this manual as one huge HTML page.
231 @*@ @ @emph{(large single download, \bigsize\)}
234 @item @uref{../\base\.pdf, \base\.pdf}:
239 download as a PDF file.
240 @*@ @ @emph{(large single download, \pdfsize\)}
249 @c don't add any extra spaces in this macro -gp
250 @macro ifWebLinks{webLink,normalLink}
260 @include web/introduction.itexi
261 @include web/download.itexi
262 @include web/manuals.itexi
263 @include web/community.itexi