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This document explains what you need to install LilyPond, and what you
-should do. If you are going to compile and install LilyPond very
-often you might want to check out the file(buildscripts/set-lily.sh)
-script. It sets some environment variables and symlinks, which comes
-in handly when you have to compile LilyPond very often.
+should do. If you are going to compile and install LilyPond often,
+e.g. when doing development, you might want to check out the
+file(buildscripts/set-lily.sh) script. It sets some environment
+variables and symlinks, which comes in handly when you have to compile
+LilyPond more often.
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Although we recommend to use Unix, LilyPond is known to run on Windows
NT/95/98 as well. See Section ref(w32).
-it() GNU C++ version 2.7 or newer (2.8 and egcs are also fine).
+it() GNU C++ version 2.8 or newer (egcs-1.1 or newer is also fine).
it() Python 1.5 (Strictly speaking, you shouldn't need Python for
compiling and installing, but you'll need it to regenerate the font
tables, e.g.).
-it() GUILE 1.3 (no, GUILE 1.2 won't work), check out lurl(http://www.gnu.org/programs/guile.html)
+it() GUILE 1.3 (no, GUILE 1.2 won't work), check out lurl(http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html).
)
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it()A PostScript printer and/or viewer (such as Ghostscript) is strongly
recommended. Xdvi will show all embedded PostScript too if you have
Ghostscript installed.
-it() GUILE 1.3 (no, GUILE 1.2 won't work), check out lurl(http://www.gnu.org/programs/guile.html)
+it() GUILE 1.3 (no, GUILE 1.2 won't work), check out lurl(http://www.gnu.org/programs/guile.html)
)
lurl(ftp://ftp.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry)
or at mirror site lurl(ftp://ftp.dante.de)
-it() A fast computer (a full page of music typically takes 1 minute on my
- 486/133, using the bf(--enable-checking) compile. It's lot slower than
- most MusiXTeX preprocessors)
+it() A fast computer: a full page of music typically takes 1 minute on my
+ 486/133, using the bf(--enable-checking) compile.
)
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