+Keywords: midi notation music typesetting gnu font
+Subject: LilyPond 0.2 released - The GNU Project music typesetter
- Announcing
-
- GNU LilyPond
+GNU LilyPond - The GNU Project Music Typesetter
- 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
-works in LaTeX? No more all-nighters to get a nifty program working?
-Then this post might be just for you!
+WHAT IS LilyPond?
-I have been working very hard on a music typesetting system (called
-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.
+GNU LilyPond is the GNU Project Music typesetter: it reads a music
+definition file and outputs formatted sheet music to a TeX file or
+(mechanical) performances to MIDI files.
-Sources for this project are on:
- ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/
+WHAT'S NEW SINCE VERSION 0.1?
-detailed info and examples can be found on the webpage at:
+* LilyPond now includes a completely new music font: the Feta font.
+ We were quite disappointed with available music fonts, so we rolled
+ our own. We did our best to copy the best symbol designs available,
+ and we think that we've succeeded in doing so. We're proud of the
+ result, and we hope you agree, so go check it out!
- http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html
+* More elegant output due to
-(it is somewhat lousy, but I have more important things to do).
+ * better spacing
+ * better line breaking
+ * better font design
+ * PostScript output for variable symbols
+* Lots of bugfixes
-[DETAILED DESCRIPTION]
+* More robust, flexible, tweakable design
-WHAT IS GNU LilyPond
+* Better MIDI importing
-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)
+* Easier to use due to better scripts and input format enhancements
-As a bonus, you can also output a MIDI file of what you typed.
+* MusixTeX not needed anymore
-The input is a script file which is read. The script file is a "music
-definition", ie, you type the melody as if it is read out loud
-WHAT IS NEEDED?
+WHAT CAN LILYPOND DO?
-for compilation you need
+ASCII script input (mudela), with identifiers (for music reuse),
+customizable notenames.
- Unix. (Win32 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)
+MIDI output lets you check if you have entered the correct notes.
+MIDI to Mudela conversion through the mi2mu program.
-for running you need
+Font size selectable (26pt, 20pt, 16pt staffsize) for each score.
+Multiple staffs in one score. Each staff may have various 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.
- TeX
+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.
-FEATURES
+Integration with LaTeX through Perl scripts.
-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.
+MORE INFO
-Multiple staffs in one score. Each staff can have a different meters.
-Multiple voices within one staff; beams optionally shared between
-voices. Multiple scores within one input file. Each score is output
-to a different file.
+Sources for this project are on
-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
+ ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/ (Europe)
+ ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/ (US)
+More detailed info and examples can be found on the webpage at
-[Kudos to the FSF, all linux hackers, and --of course-- especially
-GrandMaster Linus T, for the OS and The Announce :-]
+ http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html
- Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@stack.nl>
- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jan@digicash.com>
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