-.TH "LilyPond" "1" "1998" "The LilyPond package" "The GNU Project Music Typesetter"
+.TH "LilyPond" "1" "1999" "The LilyPond package" "The GNU Project Music Typesetter"
.PP
.PP
.SH "NAME"
.PP
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
-LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter\&. This program can print
-beautiful sheet music from a music definition file\&. It can also play
-mechanical performances to a MIDI file\&. Features include multiple
-staffs, meters, clefs, keys, lyrics, versatile input language, cadenzas,
-beams, slurs, triplets, named chords, transposing, formatting scores,
-part extraction\&. It includes a nice font of musical symbols\&.
+LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter\&. It transforms a musical
+description file into beautiful sheet music\&.
+.PP
.PP
.SH "OPTIONS"
-.IP "-I,--include=FILE"
+.IP "-I,--include="
add \fBFILE\fP to the search path for input files\&.
.IP "-M,--midi"
-This disables TeX output\&. If you have a \emidi definition, it will do the
+Disable TeX output\&. If you have a \emidi definition, it will do the
midi output only\&.
.IP "-d,--dependencies"
Also output rules to be included in Makefile\&.
.IP "--include, -I=DIRECTORY"
Add \fBDIRECTORY\fP to the search path for input files\&.
.IP "--ignore-version, -V"
-Make incompatible mudela version non-fatal\&.
+Make the incompatible mudela version warning non-fatal\&.
.PP
.SH "FEATURES"
.PP
.IP o
MIDI to Mudela conversion through the mi2mu program\&.
.IP o
-Multiple staffs in one score\&. Each staff can have different meters\&.
+Multiple staffs in one score\&. Each staff can have different time signatures\&.
.IP o
Beams, slurs, ties, chords, super/subscripts (accents and text)
triplets, general n-plet (triplet, quadruplets, etc\&.), lyrics,
-transposition dynamics (both absolute and hairpin style)\&.
+transposition, dynamics (both absolute and hairpin style)\&.
.IP o
Multiple voices within one staff; beams optionally shared
between voices\&. Up to four voices is handled cleanly\&.
.PP
.SH "DISCLAIMER"
.PP
-GNU LilyPond is copyright 1996-1998 by its authors\&. GNU LilyPond is
+GNU LilyPond is copyright 1996-1999 by its authors\&. GNU LilyPond is
distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License\&. GNU LilyPond
is provided without any warranty what so ever\&.
GNU LilyPond may be freely distributed\&. For further information consult
.PP
.SH "PROBLEMS"
.PP
-There is an extensive list of todoes and bugs\&. See \fBTODO\fP\&. If you
-have a problem you should try to find out
+There is an extensive list of todoes and bugs\&. See the file
+\fBTODO\fP distributed with the sources\&. If you have a problem you
+should try to find out
.PP
.IP o
If the bug has been fixed in a newer release\&.
.IP o
If the bug has been found earlier, consult \fBTODO\fP and \fBBUGS\fP\&.
.PP
-If you have found a bug, then you should send a bugreport\&.
+If you have found a bug, then we would appreciate it if you sent a
+bugreport\&.
.PP
.IP o
Send a copy of the input which causes the error\&.
.IP o
Send a description of the bug itself\&.
.IP o
-Send it to bug-gnu-music@gnu\&.org <bug-gnu-music@gnu\&.org> (you don\'t have to subscribe
-to this mailinglist)\&.
+Send it to bug-gnu-music@gnu\&.org; you don\'t have to be subscribed
+to this mailinglist\&.
.PP
.SH "FILES"
.IP "\fBinit\&.ly\fP"
The initialisation file with symbol tables etc\&. It
-includes files from the directory \fBinit/\fP\&.
+includes files from the directory
+\fBPREFIX/share/lilypond/ly/\fP\&. (\fBPREFIX\fP typically is \fB/usr/local\fP
+)
.PP
manspagesection(environment)
.PP
.IP "LILYINCLUDE"
additional directories for finding lilypond data\&. The
format is like the format of \fBPATH\fP\&.
+.IP "LILYPREFIX"
+[FIXME]
.IP "LANG"
selects the language for the warning messages of LilyPond\&.
.PP
.PP
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
-.IP "internals"
-On technical details of LilyPond
-.IP "mudela-man"
-On the input format\&. This is a LilyPond-enhanced LaTeX document\&.
-.IP "MANIFESTO"
-Goals of the GNU LilyPond project\&.
-.IP "FAQ"
-The GNU LilyPond FAQ list
-.IP "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
-.PP
-GNU LilyPond is
-updated very frequently, the latest version is always available at:
-ftp://ftp\&.cs\&.uu\&.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond\&. This FTP site is mirrored
-at a number of sites; consult the project web pages for information
-about mirrors\&.
+LilyPond comes with various other documentation files\&. They are
+included in the source package\&.
+.PP
+A further source for information is the website, which can be found at
+http://www\&.lilypond\&.org/\&. The website contains on-line versions
+of the documentation
+.PP
+GNU LilyPond is updated very frequently, the latest version is always
+available at: ftp://ftp\&.cs\&.uu\&.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond\&. This FTP
+site is mirrored at a number of sites; consult the project web pages
+for information about mirrors\&.
.PP
For programs which are part of the GNU music project, the following
mailing list have been setup:
.PP
-.IP "info-gnu-music@gnu\&.org <info-gnu-music@gnu\&.org>"
+.IP "info-gnu-music@gnu\&.org"
For information on the GNU Music project, to subscribe: send mail with
-subject "subscribe" to info-gnu-music-request@gnu\&.org <info-gnu-music-request@gnu\&.org>
-.IP "help-gnu-music@gnu\&.org <help-gnu-music@gnu\&.org>"
+subject "subscribe" to info-gnu-music-request@gnu\&.org
+.IP "help-gnu-music@gnu\&.org"
For help with programs from the GNU music project\&. To subscribe: send
-mail with subject "subscribe" to help-gnu-music-request@gnu\&.org <help-gnu-music-request@gnu\&.org>
-.IP "bug-gnu-music@gnu\&.org <bug-gnu-music@gnu\&.org>"
+mail with subject "subscribe" to help-gnu-music-request@gnu\&.org
+.IP "bug-gnu-music@gnu\&.org"
If you have bugreports, you should send them to this list\&. If you want
to read all bugreports, you should subscribe to this list\&. To
subscribe: send mail with subject "subscribe" to
-bug-gnu-music-request@gnu\&.org <bug-gnu-music-request@gnu\&.org>
-.IP "gnu-music-discuss@gnu\&.org <gnu-music-discuss@gnu\&.org>"
+bug-gnu-music-request@gnu\&.org
+.IP "gnu-music-discuss@gnu\&.org"
For discussions concerning the GNU Music project, to subscribe: send
mail with subject "subscribe" to
-gnu-music-discuss-request@gnu\&.org <gnu-music-discuss-request@gnu\&.org>
+gnu-music-discuss-request@gnu\&.org
.PP
Announces of new versions will be sent to info-gnu-music and
gnu-music-discuss\&.
.SH "REMARKS"
.PP
GNU LilyPond has no connection with the music package Rosegarden, other
-than the names being similar (:-)
-.PP
-.SH "HISTORY"
-.PP
-(for a detailed changelog, see \fBNEWS\fP)
-.PP
-GNU LilyPond\'s roots lie in MPP, a preprocessor to the rather arcane
-MusiXTeX macro package for TeX\&. A friend of mine, Jan Nieuwenhuizen
-wrote the first 44 versions (0\&.01 to 0\&.44), then his program caught my
-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, 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)\&.
-.PP
-After long and hard thinking, I came up with an algorithm for the
-horizontal spacing of multiple staffs (april 1996) I coded it (and did
-not test it)\&. After starting with this fundamental piece, I slowly
-added the stages which come before spacing, and after\&. A half year
-later, I had a first working version, (october 1996)\&. I announced
-Patchlevel 0\&.0\&.7 (or 8) to the mutex list after asking some technical
-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)\&.
-.PP
-Most the other history is described in the NEWS file\&. The first large
-scale release (0\&.1) was done after approximately 78 patchlevels on
-August 1, 1997\&.
+than the names being similar :-)
.PP
.SH "AUTHOR"
.PP
-Please consult the documentation file \fBAUTHORS\&.txt\fP for more detailed
-information, and small contributions\&.
-.PP
.IP o
Han-wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs\&.uu\&.nl>
http://www\&.cs\&.uu\&.nl/people/hanwen
.IP o
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu\&.org>
http://www\&.xs4all\&.nl/~jantien
+.PP
+Please consult the documentation file \fBAUTHORS\fP for more detailed
+information, and small contributions\&.
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