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-@unnumbered LilyPond -- The GNU Project Music Typesetter
+@unnumberedsec LilyPond -- The GNU Project Music Typesetter
 
 
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+@unnumberedsec What is LilyPond?
+
 LilyPond is a music typesetter.  It produces beautiful sheet music using
 a high level description file as input. It excels at typesetting
 classical music, but you can also print pop-songs.  With LilyPond we
 hope to make music publication software available to anyone on the
 internet.
 
-The program also has limited MIDI functionality: you can write MIDI
-files with lilypond, and we have a simple MIDI to lilypond conversion
-tool, @file{midi2ly}.
-
-LilyPond is free software. It is licensed under GNU General Public
-License, and it is part of the @uref{http://www.gnu.org/,GNU Project}.
+@unnumberedsec Why should I use it?
 
+The input to LilyPond is plain text. So you can use your favorite text
+editor to edit it, you can put it in mail or embed it in an article like
+this:
 
 @quotation
-@mudela[fragment]
+@mudela[fragment,verbatim]
        \relative c'' { \key es; r8 [c16 b] [c8 g] [as c16 b] [c8 d] | g,4 }
 @end mudela 
 @end quotation
 
-    
+The output looks very good: the font and the layout algorithms were
+inspired by engraved music, so you can expect that same clear and
+elegant look from your LilyPond output.  And if you don't like the
+looks, you can tweak almost everything.
+
+The program also has limited MIDI functionality: you can write MIDI
+files with lilypond, and we have a simple MIDI to lilypond conversion
+tool, @file{midi2ly}.
+
+LilyPond is free software. It is licensed under GNU General Public
+License, so you can use, modify and redistribute the program almost no
+restrictions.  LilyPond is part of the @uref{http://www.gnu.org/,GNU
+Project}.
 
 The version numbers are in Linux-kernel style: even unnumbered versions
 are `stable'. The webpages for the stable version reside at GNU, here: