7 LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music
8 using a description file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.
13 LilyPond uses a versioning scheme that easily identifies stable and
14 development releases. In a version "x.y.z", an even second number 'y'
15 denotes a stable version. For development versions 'y' is odd.
20 The primary download site for sourcecode is
21 `http://lilypond.org/downloads/'.
26 For compiling and running LilyPond see the installation instructions.
27 These instructions can be found when you unpack lilypond, as
28 `lilypond-x.y.z/INSTALL.txt'. They are also available on the web at
29 `http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/topdocs/INSTALL.html'.
34 The documentation is available online at `http://lilypond.org/doc/'.
36 You can also build it locally: follow the instructions under
37 `Building documentation' in the installation instructions.
42 Send your criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc. to the mailing
43 list, not to us personally.
45 We have the following mailing lists:
47 * info-lilypond@gnu.org
48 (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-lilypond) is a
49 low-volume list for information on LilyPond project. This
50 list is moderated; ask David R. Linn <drl@gnu.org> or
51 Han-Wen <hanwen@xs4all.nl> to send announcements for this list.
53 * lilypond-devel@gnu.org
54 (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel) for
55 discussions about developing LilyPond, in particular the unstable
58 * lilypond-user@gnu.org
59 (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user) for
60 discussions about using LilyPond, in particular the stable series.
62 * bug-lilypond@gnu.org
63 (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond) for sending
66 * lilypond-auto@gnu.org
67 (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-auto) for
68 notifications from the issue tracking systems of LilyPond.
70 You can search the lists from our searching facilities
71 (http://lilypond.org/search).
76 Send bug reports to <bug-lilypond@gnu.org>. For help and questions use
77 <lilypond-user@gnu.org>.