2 This is the toplevel README to LilyPond
4 LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter. This program can print
5 beautiful sheet music from a music definition file. It can also play
6 mechanical performances to a MIDI file. Features include multiple
7 staffs, meters, clefs, keys, lyrics, versatile input language, cadenzas,
8 beams, slurs, triplets, formatting scores, part extraction. It includes
9 a nice font of musical symbols.
13 if you have downloaded a
17 version, then this is version is *not* meant for producing nice output
18 (but to keep your patchsets up to date). It might not even compile.
22 For the compilation and running of LilyPond you need some additional
23 packages. Please refer to the installation instructions.
25 NOTE: If you downloaded a binary (.rpm or a W95/NT .zip file), then
26 you don't have to compile LilyPond.
30 For your convenience, a formatted copy of the INSTALL instructions are
31 in the toplevel directory, as INSTALL.txt
33 The process is fairly straightforward, but chances are that you have
34 to specify directories for TeX to configure: this is done with
35 the options --enable-tex-dir and --enable-mf-dir
39 The real documentation is the directory Documentation/
41 To generate the pretty-printed docs, you have to run configure first,
46 You can also simply read the .yo sources. They are ASCII text.
47 The complete documentation is accessible in formatted form at the
48 website http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/index.html
52 LilyPond is a long way from finished and polished. We do appreciate
53 criticism, comments, bugreports, patches, etc.
55 Please send your e-mail to one of the MAILING LISTS
57 and not to us personally. See Documentation/links.yo for more info.
61 If you have received this file as part of a DOS/Window32 distribution
62 (lilypond-*.zip), then it is advisable to also download the source
63 package, since it might contain more documentation
64 ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/
66 If you decide to build LilyPond from source, please read the INSTALL.txt
67 document first, especially the Windows NT/95 section.
71 * Please read the file BUGS for some ugly bugs. This especially applies
72 Linux-Intel unix users.
74 * If you have installed a previous version, be sure to remove old font
76 rm `find /var/lib/texmf/fonts -name 'feta*'`
78 a script to do this for you is in bin/cleanfonts.sh
80 8: CDROM DISTRIBUTIONS
82 If you have received LilyPond on a cdrom, chances are that development
83 has moved a some patchlevels up. If possible, please check the latest
84 version of LilyPond before reporting bugs.