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@settitle GNU LilyPond essay
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@omfcreator Han-Wen Nienhuys, Jan Nieuwenhuizen and Graham Percival
@omfdescription essay of the LilyPond music engraving system
@omftype program usage
@omfcategory Applications|Publishing
@omflanguage English
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@node Top
@top GNU LilyPond --- essay
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@titlepage
@title LilyPond
@subtitle The music typesetter
@titlefont{essay}
@author The LilyPond development team


Copyright @copyright{} 1999--2009 by the authors

@quotation
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
with no Invariant Sections.
A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU
Free Documentation License''.
@end quotation

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For LilyPond version @version{}
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Copyright @copyright{} 1999--2009 by the authors

@quotation
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
with no Invariant Sections.
A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU
Free Documentation License''.
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This file documents GNU LilyPond for beginners.

Copyright 1999--2009 by the authors

@quotation
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
with no Invariant Sections.
A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU
Free Documentation License''.
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This is the essay (LM) for GNU LilyPond version @version{}.
For more information about how this fits with the other
@c documentation, see @ref{About the documentation}.

@cindex web site
@cindex URL

More information can be found at
@uref{http://@/www@/.lilypond@/.org/}.  The website contains on-line copies
of this and other documentation.

@menu
* Introduction::                   What, Why, How.
* GNU Free Documentation License:: License of this document.
@end menu
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@c @n ode LilyPond index
@c @a ppendix LilyPond index

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