5 This is a beta version of LilyPond (a music typesetter). This release is
6 preliminary, please do not distribute. Please send your helpful comments and
9 hanwen@stack.urc.tue.nl
13 TeX, the MusixTeX fonts, g++ > v2.7. The "flower" library, which should be
14 available from the same source you got this from.
18 You will need GNU C++ v2.7 or better and GNU make. If you actually
19 want to use this, you'd better use the "speedy" compilation flags in
22 why G++ >= 2.7? LilyPond & flower lib uses builtin bool and typeof.
26 No, you shouldn't. Really. If you're still not discouraged; this is
27 what I type in my xterm:
33 This is what the output looks like over here.
35 hw:~/musix/spacer$ lilypond maartje.ly
36 LilyPond version 0.0.6 compiled on Nov 2 1996 at 01:25:29
37 Parsing ... [maartje.ly]
38 output to lelie.uit...
39 hw:~/musix/spacer$ tex test
40 This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (C version 6.1)
42 Hyphenation patterns for english, dutch, loaded.
43 (lilyponddefs.tex) (lelie.uit) [1] )
44 Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 1964 bytes).
45 Transcript written on test.log.
46 hw:~/musix/spacer$ xdvi test&
53 If LilyPond bombs out, then please recompile using -g, and send a gdb
54 stacktrace of the crash.
59 * Use The Source, Luke. If you don't know C++, you can try editing
60 .dstreamrc for copious debugging output.
62 * see also the subdir Documentation
64 * The source is commented in the DOC++ style.
67 http://www.ZIB-Berlin.DE/VisPar/doc++/doc++.html