-Subject: LilyPond 0.1 released - GNU Project music typesetter
+Keywords: midi notation music typesetting gnu font
+Subject: LilyPond 0.2 released - The GNU Project music typesetter
+GNU LilyPond - The GNU Project Music Typesetter
- BORN
- August 1, 1997
+WHAT IS LilyPond?
- Lily
+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.
- (GNU LilyPond 0.1)
- daughter to Jan 'Janneke' Nieuwenhuizen and Han-Wen 'Wendy'
- Nienhuys
+WHAT'S NEW SINCE VERSION 0.1?
-Lily is a healthy, bouncing baby weighing 340 kilobytes
+* 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!
-Visiting hours: 24hrs a day at
+* More elegant output due to
- ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/lilypond-0.1.0.tar.gz (Europe)
- ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/lilypond/lilypond-0.1.0.tar.gz (US)
+ * better spacing
+ * better line breaking
+ * better font design
+ * PostScript output for variable symbols
-You can see some babyfood, diapers and pictures at
+* Lots of bugfixes
- http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html
-
-You can send your congratulations to Janneke (jan@digicash.com) and
-Wendy (hanwen@stack.nl)
-
-[ And now the serious part ]
-
- 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
-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
-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:
-
- ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/
-
-detailed info and examples can be found on the webpage at:
-
- http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html
-
-It isn't flashy, but then I wasn't born to be a webartist.
-
-
-[DETAILED DESCRIPTION]
+* More robust, flexible, tweakable design
-WHAT IS GNU LilyPond?
+* Better MIDI importing
-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 and (mechanical) performances to MIDI files.
+* Easier to use due to better scripts and input format enhancements
-WHY?
+* MusixTeX not needed anymore
-We want to create tools which can produce production quality scores
-and parts of public music. We haven't quite reached that goal:
-
-* The quality of the output isn't good enough yet due to
-some (still) unsophisticated algorithms
-
-* A number of features haven't been implemented (although they can be
-quite simple)
-
-WE WANT YOU!
-
-You can become a user, but we'd really appreciate it you would start
-hacking at Lily, and help us advance our project more quickly.
-
-WHAT IS NEEDED?
-
-for compilation you need
-
- 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?
ASCII script input (mudela), with identifiers (for music reuse),
-customizable notenames
+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
+general n-plet (triplet, quadruplets, etc.), lyrics, transposition,
dynamics (both absolute and hairpin style), clef changes, meter
-changes, cadenza-mode, key changes, repeat bars
+changes, cadenza-mode, key changes, repeat bars.
+
+Integration with LaTeX through Perl scripts.
+
-Integration with LaTeX through scripts.
+MORE INFO
+Sources for this project are on
+ 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
+
+ http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html
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