3 This is the toplevel README to LilyPond
4 ***************************************
6 LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music
7 using a high level description file as input. LilyPond is part of the
13 LilyPond uses a versioning scheme similar to the Linux kernel. In a
14 version "x.y.z", an even second number 'y' denotes a stable version.
15 For development versions 'y' is odd.
17 Version 1.4 is the latest stable release.
22 For compiling and running LilyPond please refer to the installation
23 instructions. These instructions can be found when you unpack lilypond,
24 as `lilypond-x.y.z/INSTALL.txt'.
26 NOTE: If you downloaded a binary (.rpm or a W95/NT .zip file), you
27 don't have to compile LilyPond.
32 The documentation is available online at `http://www.lilypond.org/'.
33 You can also build it locally. This does require a working LilyPond
34 binary. The following formats are supported:
35 * HTML. Refer to INSTALL.txt for information on how to make the HTML
38 * `.dvi', for the tutorial and reference manual. Do
40 make -C Documentation/user/ dvi
41 The printable documentation is left in `Documentation/user/out/'.
43 * paper. Create the .dvi documentation, and print it with dvips.
49 LilyPond is a long way from finished and polished, so please send
50 your criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc., to the mailing
51 list, _not_ to us personally.
53 We have the following mailing lists:
55 * info-lilypond@gnu.org
56 (http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-lilypond) is a
57 low-volume list for information on the GNU Music project.
58 This list is moderated; ask David R. Linn <drl@gnu.org> or
59 Han-Wen <hanwen@cs.uu.nl> to send announcements for this list.
61 * lilypond-devel@gnu.org
62 (http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel) For
63 discussions about developing lilypond, in particular the unstable
66 * lilypond-user@gnu.org
67 (http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user) For
68 discussions about using lilypond, in particular the stable series.
70 * bug-lilypond@gnu.org
71 (http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond) If you have
72 bugreports, you should send them to this list.
77 If you have received this file as part of a DOS/Window32 distribution
78 (`LilyPond-*.zip'), it is advisable to also download the source package
79 (ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/), since it might contain more
85 If you have installed a previous version, be sure to remove old font
87 rm `find /var/lib/texmf/fonts -name 'feta*'`
89 a script to do this for you is in `buildscripts/out/clean-fonts'
94 Send bug reports to <bug-lilypond@gnu.org>. For help and questions
95 use <lilypond-user@gnu.org>. Please consult the FAQ and installation
96 instructions before mailing your problems.