+ Announcing
+
+ GNU LilyPond
+
+ The Music Typesetter
+
Do you pine for the nice days of Linux 0.95, when men were men and
wrote their own applications? Are you without a nice project and just
dying to cut your teeth into a bleeding edge application you can
-modify for your needs. Do you find it frustrating that everything
+modify for your needs? Do you find it frustrating that everything
works in LaTeX? No more all-nighters to get a nifty program working?
Then this post might be just for you!
I have been working very hard on a music typesetting system (called
-LilyPond) the past half year, and I finally think it is ready to be
+GNU LilyPond) the past half year, and I finally think it is ready to be
used and hacked at by a larger public than me and my co-developer.
-Sources for this project are on
+Sources for this project are on:
ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/
[DETAILED DESCRIPTION]
-WHAT IS LILYPOND
+WHAT IS GNU LilyPond
Technically it is a preprocessor which generates TeX
(or LaTeX) output which contains information to typeset a musical
GNU C++ v2.7 or better, with libg++ installed.
GNU make.
Flex (2.5.1 or better).
- Bison.
+ Bison. (1.25 or better)
for running you need
TeX
- The MusixTeX fonts. (I use those in MusixTeX T.59)
FEATURES
-ASCII script input, with identifiers (for music reuse), customizable
-notenames
+ASCII script input (mudela), with identifiers (for music reuse),
+customizable notenames
MIDI output lets you check if you have entered the correct notes.
MIDI to Mudela conversion through the mi2mu program.
Multiple staffs in one score. Each staff can have a different meters.
Multiple voices within one staff; beams optionally shared between
-voices. (well, more than 2 voices won't look pretty --yet.) Multiple
-scores within one input file. Each score is output to a different
-file.
+voices. Multiple scores within one input file. Each score is output
+to a different file.
-Beams, slurs, chords, super/subscripts (accents and text), triplets,
+Beams, slurs, chords, super/subscripts (accents and text),
general n-plet (triplet, quadruplets, etc.), lyrics, transposition
dynamics (both absolute and hairpin style) clef changes, meter
changes, cadenza-mode, key changes, repeat bars
-[Kudos to FSF, all linux hackers, and --of course-- especially
+[Kudos to the FSF, all linux hackers, and --of course-- especially
GrandMaster Linus T, for the OS and The Announce :-]
Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@stack.nl>