=head1 DESCRIPTION
-Technically GNU LilyPond 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)
-
-As a bonus, you can also output a MIDI file of what you typed.
-
-It translates script files (mudela files or F<*.ly>'s) into TeX input.
-Typesetting music is a complex task, whereas the message that printed
-music conveys is usually a simple one. GNU LilyPond is a try at providing
-a simple interface for setting music.
+GNU LilyPond which converts music definition files into visual or
+audio output: it can produce formatted sheet music in TeX and
+and mechanical perfomances to MIDI files.
=head1 OPTIONS
=item *
-multiple stafftypes (melodic, rhythmic) [broken from pl28 on]
-
-=item *
-
beams, slurs, ties, chords, super/subscripts (accents and text),
triplets, general n-plet (triplet, quadruplets, etc.), lyrics,
transposition dynamics (both absolute and hairpin style)
Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@stack.nl>, http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen
-Main author
-
=item *
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jan@digicash.com>, http://www.digicash.com/~jan.
-Context errors, Lyrics, mi2mu, MIDI stuff, make structure, bits of
-FlowerLib, general comments, Mudela design.
-
=back
-Your name could be here! If you want to help, then take a look at the
-SMALLISH PROJECTS section of in the file F<TODO>. Some do not involve
-coding C++
-
-=head1 EXAMPLES
-
-At this time, GNU LilyPond output looks nice, but is not of production
-quality. If you're not discouraged; this is what I type in my xterm:
-
- lilypond someinput.ly
- tex lelie.tex
- xdvi test&
-
-This is what the output looks like over here:
-
- hw:~/musix/spacer$ GNU LilyPond 0.0.60 #8/FlowerLib 1.1.14 #2
- Parsing ... [./input/kortjakje.ly[lots of stuff]]
- Setting up requests...Processing requests ...[8][16][24][25]
- Preprocessing elements...
- Calculating column positions ... [3][7][12][16][20][25]
- Postprocessing elements...
- TeX output to lelie.tex ...
-
- hw:~/musix/spacer$ tex lelie
- This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (C version 6.1)
- (lelie.tex
- Hyphenation patterns for english, dutch, german, loaded.
- (/home/hw/lib/texmf/tex/lilypond/lilyponddefs.tex) [1] )
- Output written on lelie.dvi (1 page, 8944 bytes).
- Transcript written on lelie.log.
-
- hw:~/musix/spacer$ xdvi lelie&
- [1] 855
-
-Check out the input files, some of them have comments
-
=head1 PROBLEMS
=item *
-if the bug has been found earlier, consult F<TODO>
+if the bug has been found earlier, consult F<TODO> and F<BUGS>
+
+=back
+
+If you have found a bug, then you should send a bugreport.
-=item *
+ - send a copy of the input which causes the error
+ - send a description of the platform you use
+ - send a description of the LilyPond version you use (with
+ compile/config options please)
+ - send a description of the bug itself.
+ - send it to bug-gnu-music@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
-where the bug comes from: if GNU LilyPond bombs out, then please
-recompile using with debugging info turned on, and send a copy of the
-input which causes the error and a gdb stacktrace of the crash. It
-also helps if you can print the values of the objects. So if your
-trace is
+It does help if you can find out where the bug comes from: if GNU
+LilyPond bombs out, then please recompile using with debugging info
+turned on, and send gdb stacktrace of the crash. It also helps if you
+can print the values of the objects. So if your trace is
+ received SIGSEGV
(gdb) backtrace 12
#0 Interval::operator+= (this=0x11fffec60..)
at ../flower/interval.hh:50
:
Than it would help if you send a dump of the Interval and the Item
-(use: C<print *this> or use GNU LilyPond C<print()> methods).
-
-=back
-
-Bug reports should be directed to
-bug-gnu-music@vuse.vanderbilt.edu. In any case, they should contain a
-description of the problem, an small input file which reproduces it
-(if applicable), lilypond version and a description of the platform.
+(use: C<print *this> or use LilyPond C<print()> methods).
=head1 FILES
=item http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html
-GNU LilyPond has her own webpage at
-This webpage contains
-the MIDI, GIF and PS files for some standard music files. It also has
-the complete LilyPond documentation
+GNU LilyPond has her own webpage. This webpage contains the MIDI, GIF
+and PS files for some standard music files. It also has the complete
+LilyPond documentation
=back
updated very frequently, the latest version is always available at:
ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond.
-For programs which part of the GNU music project, the following mailing list
-have been setup:
+For programs which are part of the GNU music project, the following
+mailing list have been setup:
=over 4
mail with subject "subscribe" to
gnu-music-discuss-request@vuse.vanderbilt.edu,
+
=back
+Announces of new versions will be sent to info-gnu-music and
+gnu-music-discuss.
+
=head1 REMARKS
GNU LilyPond has no connection with the music package Rosegarden, other
attention, and I was slowly sucked in to the interesting problem of
easily producing beautifully printed music. I contributed some
code. We soon realised that MPP's design was too fundamentally broken
-to be repaired. It was decided to rewrite MPP. We debated a lot about
+to be repaired, so it was decided to rewrite MPP. We debated a lot about
the requirements to an inputformat (fall 1995). I sat down and started
with a parser-first, bottom-up rewrite called mpp95 (which totally
failed, obviously).
details on spacing; it was downloaded approximately 4 times. Then I
got the hang of it, and in the subsequent two months, I coded until it
had doubled in size (pl 23).
+
+The first large scale release (0.1) was planned after approximately 80
+patchlevels on August 1, 1997.
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