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- <a href="#download">Download</a>
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- <a href="Documentation/out-www/faq.html">FAQ</a>
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- <a href="Documentation/out-www/index.html">Documentation</a>
- |
- <a href="#music">Music archives</a>
- |
- <a href="#mailing-lists">Mailing lists</a>
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- <a href="Documentation/programmer/out-www/regression-test.html">
- Regression test</a>
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-<img src="Documentation/pictures/out-www/lelie-logo.png" alt="[logo]">
+<a href="Documentation/pictures/out-www/lelie-logo.png">
+<img border=0 src="Documentation/pictures/out-www/lelie-logo.png"
+ alt="[picture of lily-cello-girl]">
+</a>
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-@unnumberedsec LilyPond -- The GNU Project Music Typesetter
-@c something breaks on 3.12 f
-@unnumberedsec What is LilyPond?
+@unnumberedsec What is LilyPond? What can it do for you?
-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.
+LilyPond prints beautiful sheet music. It produces music notation from
+a description file. It excels at typesetting classical music, but you
+can also print pop-songs.
-@unnumberedsec Why should I use it?
-
-The input to LilyPond is plain text. So, you can use your favorite text
+LilyPond input is @b{plain text}. So, you can use your favorite text
editor to enter it, you can put it in mail or embed it in an article like
this:
-
@quotation
-@mudela[fragment,verbatim]
- \relative c'' { \key es; r8 [c16 b] [c8 g] [as c16 b] [c8 d] | g,4 }
-@end mudela
+@lilypond[fragment,verbatim, relative 1]
+\key c \minor r8 c16 b c8 g as c16 b c8 d | g,4
+@end lilypond
@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 with
-almost no restrictions. LilyPond is part of the
-@uref{http://www.gnu.org/,GNU Project}.
-
-The version numbers are in Linux-kernel style: even numbered versions
-are `stable'. The webpages for the stable version (1.2) reside at GNU,
-here: @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/lilypond}. Big enhancements go
-into the latest odd numbered version (1.3); its webpages are on
- @uref{http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/,Han-Wen's site}.
-
-If want more information, you can browse the
-@uref{Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond.html, manual} or other
-@uref{Documentation/out-www/index.html, documentation}.
-
-
-@unnumberedsec News
-
-For the latest and greatest features, check out the
-@uref{Documentation/out-www/CHANGES.txt, Change Log}.
-
-
-@html
-<a name="music">
-@end html
-@unnumberedsec Sheet music
-
-
-If you are interested in sheet music typeset by LilyPond, have a look at
-the examples included. We have @uref{short-examples.html,short
-examples} and @uref{long-examples.html,longer examples}. The
-examples include sound bites in MIDI, pictures in PNG, printable scores
-in PostScript, and LilyPond input.
-
-Others use LilyPond too.
-@uref{http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Studio/1714/harpsichord.html,John
-Sankey}, harpsichordist to the internet, is typesetting the complete
-@uref{http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Studio/1714/scarlattidwn.html,sonatas
-by Scarlatti}. Jeff Covey, guitar player and overall nice guy, is
-putting @uref{http://www4.smart.net/~jcovey/scores/,guitar music} on the
-net. The @uref{http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Mutopia/,Mutopia project} is a
-large archive of public domain sheet music under construction.
-
-@html
-<a name="download">
-@end html
-@unnumberedsec Download
-
-If you want to compile LilyPond from source, download here:
-@itemize @bullet
-@item Download stable releases at
-@uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/lilypond/}
-@item Download development releases at
-@uref{ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/development/}
-@item Canadian mirror @uref{http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/lilypond/} and @uref{ftp://sca.uwaterloo.ca/pub/}
-@item Another site in Europe
-@uref{ftp://ftp.lilypond.org/pub/LilyPond/}
-@end itemize
-
-Installing and compiling requires many additional packages, which are
-listed in the @uref{Documentation/topdocs/out-www/INSTALL.html,
-installation instructions}.
-
-There are binaries available, but alas they are not updated for every version released.
-@itemize @bullet
-@item RedHat i386
-binary RPMs: @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/RedHat/RPMS/}
-
-@item Debian binary @uref{ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/tex}
-@item i386 RPM: @uref{http://linux.umbc.edu/software/lilypond/rpms/}
-@item Windows NT: @uref{http://home.austin.rr.com/jbr/jeff/lilypond/}
-@end itemize
-
-
-@html
-<a name="mailing-lists">
-@end html
-@unnumberedsec Mailing list
-
-If you have questions, do write to the mailing lists!
- (But don't forget to read the @uref{Documentation/out-www/faq.html,
-Frequently Asked Questions} first.)
-
-
-@table @samp
-@item info-gnu-music@@gnu.org
- is a moderated list for information on the GNU Music project, to
- subscribe: send mail with subject "subscribe" to
- info-gnu-music-request@@gnu.org.
-
- As this list is moderated, normal people should ask to
- @email{drl@@gnu.org, David R. Linn} or
- @email{hanwen@@cs.uu.nl, Han-Wen} to forward announces instead of
- sending it to info-gnu-music@@gnu.org
-
- This list is archived at
- @uref{http://www.mail-archive.com/info-gnu-music@@gnu.org}
-
-@item help-gnu-music@@gnu.org
- For help with LilyPond music project. To subscribe: send
- mail with subject "subscribe" to
- @email{help-gnu-music-request@@gnu.org} The archive is at
- @uref{http://www.mail-archive.com/help-gnu-music@@gnu.org}.
-
-@item bug-gnu-music@@gnu.org
- If you have bugreports, you should send them to this list. If you
-want to know about bugs, subscribe: send mail with subject "subscribe"
-to
- @email{bug-gnu-music-request@@gnu.org}. The archive is at
-@uref{http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-gnu-music@@gnu.org}
-
- Please include in your bugreport the version of LilyPond that
-you experience the problem with, a description of your system and sample
-input to reproduce the problem. Do not send output files over the list,
-they tend to be very big and don't help with describing the problem.
-
-
-@item gnu-music-discuss@@gnu.org,
- For discussions concerning LilyPond, to subscribe: send
- mail with subject "subscribe" to
- @email{gnu-music-discuss-request@@gnu.org}
- The archive is at
- @uref{http://www.mail-archive.com/gnu-music-discuss@@gnu.org}
-@end table
-
-
-
-@unnumberedsubsec Webmaster's Disclaimer
-
-These pages were entirely created from a @strong{development snapshots}
-of the LilyPond package. The version of this webpage is printed at the
-bottom. If you want to volunteer for making more beautiful webpages,
-then please mail us!
-
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- <a href="#download">Download</a>
- |
- <a href="Documentation/out-www/faq.html">FAQ</a>
- |
- <a href="Documentation/out-www/index.html">Documentation</a>
- |
- <a href="#music">Music archives</a>
- |
- <a href="#mailing-lists">Mailing lists</a>
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- <a href="Documentation/programmer/out-www/regression-test.html">
- Regression test</a>
- |
- <a href="Documentation/out-www/CHANGES.txt">News</a>
-]
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+Or you can use it to print music from other programs, using one of the
+numerous input filters.
+
+LilyPond output looks @b{beautiful}. 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 anything is not to your
+liking, you can tweak almost everything.
+
+LilyPond is @b{free software}. It is part of the
+@uref{http://www.gnu.org/,GNU Project}. It is licensed under GNU General
+Public License, so you can use, modify and redistribute the program with
+almost no restrictions.
+
+
+LilyPond has a development version and a stable version. This webpage is
+for the @b{development} release. This release contains experimental and
+often buggy code, so use it only if you need special new features. On
+the other hand, stable releases don't change much, and are essentially
+bug-free. You can access the website for the stable releases
+@uref{http://lilypond.org/stable, here}.
+
+@unnumberedsec Want to know more?
+
+If you want to know more, visit the
+@uref{Documentation/out-www/index.html, documentation page}. If you
+want to see some sheet music, then have a look at the
+@uref{examples.html, examples}. For even more sheet music, head over
+to @uref{http://www.mutopiaproject.org, the mutopia project}.
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