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+Keywords: midi notation music typesetting gnu
+Subject: LilyPond 0.1 released - The GNU Project music typesetter
-CALL FOR HACKERS: LilyPond, the Music Typesetter
+ BORN
-[Sorry if this is a bit off-topic; I want to announce this software to
-small crowd, because it is still test-stage]
+ August 1, 1997
-Hi net!
+ Lily
-this is to announce the availability of the first public release
-(v0.1) of my music typesetter.
+ (GNU LilyPond 0.1)
-WHAT IS LILYPOND
+ daughter to Jan 'Janneke' Nieuwenhuizen and Han-Wen 'Wendy' Nienhuys
-Technically it is a preprocessor which generates TeX
-(or LaTeX) output which contains information to typeset a musical
-score. Practically it is a typesetter, which only uses TeX as an
-output medium. (this is handy because there exist music fonts for TeX)
+Lily is a healthy, bouncing baby weighing 345 kilobytes
-As a bonus, you can also output a MIDI file of what you typed.
+Visiting hours: 24 hours a day at
-HOW DOES IT WORK
+ ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/lilypond-0.1.0.tar.gz (Europe)
+ ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu/lilypond-0.1.0.tar.gz (US)
-The input is a script file (example appended) which is read. The
-script file is a "music definition", ie, you type the melody as if it
-is read out loud
+You can see some babyfood, diapers and pictures at
-LilyPond interprets this melody and generates appropriate output items
-(balls, stems, beams), and calculates where they should be put. Then
-it outputs a TeX file. Warning: this said calculations is *slow* (a full
-page of music typically takes 1 minute on my 486/66)
+ http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html
+
+You can send your congratulations to Janneke (jan@digicash.com) and
+Wendy (hanwen@stack.nl)
+
+
+GNU LilyPond - The GNU Project Music Typesetter
+
+
+
+``WHAT IS GNU LilyPond?''
+
+Well Mike, GNU LilyPond is a program which converts music definition
+files into visual or auditive output: it can typeset formatted sheet
+music to a TeX file and (mechanical) performances to MIDI files.
+
+
+We have been working very hard on this system for the past year, and
+we finally think that it is ready to be used and hacked at by a larger
+public than us.
+
+
+WHY ?
+
+We want to create tools to produce production quality scores and parts
+of public domain music.
+
+
+BUT ..
+
+We haven't yet reached that goal:
+
+* The quality of the output isn't good enough yet due to some
+unsophisticated algorithms
+
+* Some features haven't been implemented, due to lack of time; most of
+them can be done quite simply
+
+This is why we don't consider this software stable yet. It generally
+does what it is supposed to, but we reserve the right to make
+(incompatible) changes to the input format. We consider it
+of BETA quality.
+
+
+WE WANT YOU!
-WHY IS THIS A TEST VERSION
+You can become a user, but we'd really appreciate it if you would start
+hacking at Lily, and help us advance our project more quickly.
-There a lot of advanced features (grace notes, piano staffs) which are
-VapourFeatures (tm). We're not sure about the language. It may change;
-having a large user base is a burden then.
-WHY A CALL FOR HACKERS
+``YES, IT IS FANTASTIC! WHAT DO I NEED?''
-Currently, the development team has three people. I'd this project to
-have more people working on it (there is a lot of work to be done) I
-think this program is pretty original, so join in if you know anything
-about music and computers!
+For compilation you need
-As an aside, I really like the anarchist approach of linux development.
+ Unix. (windows32 is known to work, too)
+ GNU C++ v2.7 or better, with libg++ installed.
+ GNU make.
+ Flex (2.5.1 or better).
+ Bison. (1.25 or better)
-WHAT HAS TO BE DONE
+For running you need
-LilyPond is written in Gnu C++, and it is (if I say so myself) written
-very cleanly (Lots of classes, lots of comments, small files/small
-functions) and with extensions in mind.
+ TeX
+ MusiXTeX fonts
- - Coding. For this time, there won't any biggish (global)
-source hackings. There are a lot of small projects which could use
-some work.
+The MusiXTeX fonts are part of the MusiXTeX package version T.73,
+available at any CTAN mirror, or http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
- - Some TeX hacking. I know little about TeX
- - Documentation. I don't have time for this
+``WHAT CAN LILYPOND DO?''
-I WANT MORE INFO!
+ASCII script input (mudela), with identifiers (for music reuse),
+customizable notenames.
-You can download it at:
+MIDI output lets you check if you have entered the correct notes.
+MIDI to Mudela conversion through the mi2mu program.
- ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond
+Multiple staffs in one score. Each staff can have a different meters.
+Multiple voices within one staff (up to four handled graciously);
+beams optionally shared between voices. Multiple scores within one
+input file. Each score is output to a different file.
-or visit the incredibly lousy webpage at:
+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.
+
+Integration with LaTeX through Perl scripts.
+
+
+``WHERE CAN I FIND MORE INFO?''
+
+Sources for this project are on
+
+ ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/ (Europe)
+ ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu/ (US)
+
+More detailed info and examples can be found on the webpage at
http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html
-EXAMPLE INPUT
-
- % twinkle twinkle little star
- melody = music {
- $\clef\violin
- c c | g g | a a | g g |
- f f | e e | d d8.( e16 | )c2 |
-
- g g | f f | e e | d d |
- g g | f f | e( e8. f16 | e )d |
-
- c c | g g | a a | g g |
- f f | e e | d d8.( e16 | )c2
- $
- }
-
- text2 = music {
- @
- \textstyle "roman"
- When the bla- zing sun is gone,2
- When he no- thing shines up- on,2
- Then you show your lit- tle light,2
- Twin- kle, twin- kle, all the night.2
- Twin- kle, twin- kle, lit- tle star,2
- How I won- der what you are!2
- @
- }
-
- english_staf = staff {
- lyric
- music { text2 }
- }
-
- score {
- staff { melodic music { melody } }
- staff { english_staf }
- paper {
- unitspace 2.5cm
- }
- commands {
- meter {2 * 4}
- skip {24*2}
- bar "||"
- }
- }
+THANK YOU,
+
+Thanks go out to Mats Bengtsson, Werner Lemberg and Richard Stallman
+for comments and contributions.
+
+
+**** NOTE
+
+LilyPond might have a minor bug if you use glibc-2; we will look into it
+If you use glibc-2, please try 0.1.0 to see if it works and, download 0.1.1
+when it's available.
+
+LilyPond might exhibit a g++ bug on Solaris 1.5 (The stack frame gets corrupted
+by a constructor) if you compile with -O2. We don't know workarounds.
+
+ --- * ---
+
+ We would like to dedicate this program to all the friends that we
+ met through music.
+
+
+ Those deserving special mention (in no particular order):
+Esther, Marijke, Heike, Inge, Judith, Hannah, Auke, Ilse, Evelyn,
+Maartje, Suzanne, Ilse (gee, again?) and last (but certainly not least)
+Janneke!
+
+ HWN
+
+ That's a nice thought, Wendy. I've got a few too, to spread
+the credits a bit (Again, no particular order) Michelle, Illushka,
+Ruth, Eva, Fro/ydis, Monique, Noor, Sascha, Monique, Ilse, Monique,
+Eva, Roos, Judith, Tim and, of course, Wendy!
+
+ JCN
+
+
+Of course, our other friends in the `Eindhovens Jongeren Ensemble'
+(http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/eje.html) cannot go unmentioned either.
+
+ --- * ---
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