+
+LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter. The program generates
+visual or auditive output from a music definition file: it can typeset
+formatted sheet music to a TeX file and play (mechanical) performances
+to a MIDI file. Features include multiple staffs, meters, clefs,
+keys, lyrics, versatile input-language, cadenzas, beams, slurs,
+triplets.
+
+
+1. VERSIONING
+
+if you have downloaded a
+
+ *.pre*
+
+version, then this is version is *not* meant for producing nice output
+(but to keep your patchsets up to date). It might not even compile.
+
+
+2. REQUIREMENTS
+
+For the compilation and running of LilyPond you need some additional
+packages. Please refer to the installation instructions.
+
+
+3. INSTALLATION
+
+For your convenience, a formatted copy of the INSTALL instructions are
+in the toplevel directory, as INSTALL.text
+
+
+4. DOCUMENTATION
+
+The real documentation is the directory Documentation/
+
+To generate the pretty-printed docs, you have to run configure first,
+and then do this: