-Keywords: midi notation music typesetting gnu
-Subject: LilyPond 0.1 released - The GNU Project music typesetter
-
- BORN
-
- August 1, 1997
-
- Lily
-
- (GNU LilyPond 0.1)
-
- daughter to Jan 'Janneke' Nieuwenhuizen and Han-Wen 'Wendy' Nienhuys
-
-Lily is a healthy, bouncing baby weighing 345 kilobytes
-
-Visiting hours: 24 hours a day at
-
- 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)
-
-You can see some babyfood, diapers and pictures at
-
- http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html
-
-You can send your congratulations to Janneke (jan@digicash.com) and
-Wendy (hanwen@stack.nl)
-
+Keywords: midi notation music typesetting gnu font
+Subject: LilyPond 0.2 released - The GNU Project music typesetter
GNU LilyPond - The GNU Project Music Typesetter
+WHAT IS LilyPond?
-``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 ..
+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.
-We haven't yet reached that goal:
-* The quality of the output isn't good enough yet due to some
-unsophisticated algorithms
+WHAT'S NEW SINCE VERSION 0.1?
-* Some features haven't been implemented, due to lack of time; most of
-them can be done quite simply
+* 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!
-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.
+* More elegant output due to
+ * better spacing
+ * better line breaking
+ * better font design
+ * PostScript output for variable symbols
-WE WANT YOU!
+* Lots of bugfixes
-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.
+* More robust, flexible, tweakable design
+* Better MIDI importing
-``YES, IT IS FANTASTIC! WHAT DO I NEED?''
+* Easier to use due to better scripts and input format enhancements
-For compilation you need
+* MusixTeX not needed anymore
- 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)
-For running you need
-
- TeX
- MusiXTeX fonts
-
-The MusiXTeX fonts are part of the MusiXTeX package version T.73,
-available at any CTAN mirror, or http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
-
-
-``WHAT CAN LILYPOND DO?''
+WHAT CAN LILYPOND DO?
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 (up to four handled graciously);
-beams optionally shared between voices. Multiple scores within one
-input file. Each score is output to a different file.
+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.
Beams, slurs, chords, super/subscripts (accents and text),
general n-plet (triplet, quadruplets, etc.), lyrics, transposition,
Integration with LaTeX through Perl scripts.
-``WHERE CAN I FIND MORE INFO?''
+MORE INFO
Sources for this project are on
ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/ (Europe)
- ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu/ (US)
+ ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/ (US)
More detailed info and examples can be found on the webpage at
http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html
-
-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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