General information
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  * Lily is dedicated to our friends. (DEDICATION.html)

  * It is released under the GNU GPL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html).

  * The website is at http://lilypond.org

Information for users
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  * The complete user manual (../user/out-www/lilypond/lilypond.html), (also in PostScript (../user/out-www/lilypond.ps.gz) and PDF (../user/out-www/lilypond.pdf)).

     The user manual contains a tutorial (../user/out-www/lilypond/Tutorial.html) which you should consult to learn LilyPond.

  * The user manual in one big page (../user/out-www/lilypond.html), for easy searching, or look it up in the index (../user/out-www/lilypond/Index.html).

  * A  glossary (../user/out-www/music-glossary.html)  of musical terms, including translations.  (also in PostScript (../user/out-www/music-glossary.ps.gz) and PDF (../user/out-www/music-glossary.pdf)).  Read this if you're not familiar with English terms for notation.

  * Documentation of internals (../user/out-www/lilypond-internals/lilypond-internals.html), generated from the source code.  If you want to fine-tune output, you need the information in this document.

  * Templates (../../input/template/out-www/collated-files.html), for different music styles.  Add notes, and done!

  * Templates (../../input/template/out-www/collated-files.html), for different music styles. Add notes, and done!

  * All of the tips-and-tricks (../../input/test/out-www/collated-files.html) input snippets, with the corresponding output shown.  Also available in PostScript (../../input/test/out-www/test.ps.gz) and PDF (../../input/test/out-www/test.pdf) formats.

     Regression Tests (../../input/regression/out-www/collated-files.html) are lot of snippets that test all basic features.  Also available in PostScript (../../input/regression/out-www/regression.ps.gz) and PDF (../../input/regression/out-www/regression.pdf) formats.

Literature
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  * University of Colorado Engraving music bibliography (../bibliography/out-www/colorado.html). Books referred to at the Big Site of Music Notation and Engraving (http://www.cc.colorado.edu/Dept/MU/Musicpress/) at University of Colorado.

  * References on engraving and music notation (../bibliography/out-www/engraving.html).

  * Papers on music notation by computer (../bibliography/out-www/computer-notation.html).

Mailing lists
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If you have questions, you can write to our mailing lists:

  * lilypond-devel@gnu.org (http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel) This list is for discussions concerning the development release of LilyPond.

     Searchable archives are available from http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-devel@gnu.org.

  * info-lilypond@gnu.org (http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-lilypond) is a low-volume list for information on the GNU Music project. This list is moderated; ask David R. Linn or Han-Wen to send announcements for this list.

     Searchable archives are available from http://www.mail-archive.com/info-lilypond@gnu.org.

  * lilypond-user@gnu.org (http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user) For discussing every-day use of LilyPond, in particular the stable releases.

     Searchable archives are available from http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org.

  * bug-lilypond@gnu.org (http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond) If you have bugreports, you should send them to this list.

     Please include in your bugreport the version of LilyPond that you experience the problem with, a description of your system and sample input to reproduce the problem. Do not send output files over the list, they tend to be very big and don't help with describing the problem.

     Searchable archives are available from http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-lilypond@gnu.org.

Logo
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  * Logo in large (../pictures/out-www/lelieblond.png) size.

  * Logo in medium (../pictures/out-www/lelie-logo.png) size.

  * Logo in small (../pictures/out-www/lelie-icon.png) size.