1 This is the toplevel README to LilyPond
4 GNU LilyPond which converts music definition files into visual or
5 audio output: it can typeset formatted sheet music in TeX and
6 and (mechanical) perfomances to MIDI files.
10 if you have downloaded a
14 version, then this is version is *not* meant for producing nice output
15 (but to keep your patchsets up to date). It might not even compile.
20 For the compilation and running of LilyPond you need some additional
21 packages. The most unusual one of this are the mf sources to
22 MusixTeX. Please refer to the installation instructions on how to
23 obtain and install them.
28 For your convenience, a formatted copy of the INSTALL instructions are
29 in the toplevel directory, as INSTALL.text
34 Please refer to the directory Documentation/ for the real doco.
36 To generate the pretty-printed docs, you have to run configure first,
41 You can also simply read the .pod sources. They are ASCII text.
42 .pod is the documentation format of perl (see perlpod(1))
47 LilyPond is a long way from finished and polished. I do appreciate
48 criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc. Please send e-mail to
52 info-gnu-music@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
53 help-gnu-music@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
54 bug-gnu-music@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
55 gnu-music-discuss@vuse.vanderbilt.edu,
57 See the man page on what to use for what. Or you can send it directly
58 to us: hanwen@stack.nl, jan@digicash.com.
67 If you have received this file as part of a DOS/Window32 distribution
68 (lilypond-*.zip ), then it is advisable to also download the source
69 package, since it contains the complete documentation
71 ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/ (Europe)
72 ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu/ (US)
74 The website also contains the complete documentation
76 http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html