@setfilename index.info
@settitle LilyPond homepage
+@html
+<!--- @@WEB-TITLE@@=GNU Music Typesetter Homepage --->
+@end html
+
@node Top, , , (dir)
@top
@html
<p align=center>
-<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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-@c @unnumberedsec LilyPond -- The GNU Project Music Typesetter
-
-@c something breaks on 3.12 f
-
-@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.
+@unnumberedsec What is LilyPond? What can it do for you?
-@unnumberedsec Why should I use it?
+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.
-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
-@lilypond[fragment,verbatim]
-\relative c'' { \key c \minor; r8 c16 b c8 g as c16 b c8 d | g,4 }
-@end lilypond
+@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}. Conversion tools for PMX, MUP, ABC, Finale and Musedata are
-also included.
-
-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
-@uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/lilypond, on the GNU servers}. Big
-enhancements go into the latest odd numbered version (1.3), whose
-webpages are on @uref{http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/,Han-Wen's
-site}. Information on the latest and greatest features can be found in
-the @uref{Documentation/out-www/CHANGES.html, Change Log}.
-
-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}.
-
-@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, and have put
-scores on the web. Head over to @uref{http://appel.lilypond.org/wiki/index.php?DownloadLilyPondScores}
-
-@html
-<a name="download-source">
-@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/,GNU}
-@item Download development releases from
-@uref{ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/development/,the source}
-@item @uref{http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/lilypond/, by http (Canadian
-mirror)} and
-@uref{ftp://sca.uwaterloo.ca/pub/, ftp (Canadian mirror)}
-@item
-@uref{ftp://ftp.lilypond.org/pub/LilyPond/, mirror (Europe)}
-@end itemize
-
-Installing and compiling requires many additional packages, which are
-listed in the @uref{Documentation/topdocs/out-www/INSTALL.html,
-installation instructions}.
-
-@html
-<a name="download-binary">
-@end html
-Binaries are available, but are not updated for every version released.
-@itemize @bullet
-@item @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/RedHat/RPMS/, RedHat i386}
-@item @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/RedHat/RPMS/ppc, LinuxPPC}
-@item
-@uref{ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/tex,
-Debian GNU/Linux i386}
-@item
-@uref{ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-powerpc/tex,
-Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC}
-@item @uref{http://home.austin.rr.com/jbr/jeff/lilypond/, Windows Stable}
-@item @uref{http://appel.lilypond.org/lilypond/gnu-windows, Windows
-Testing}
-@end itemize
-
-
-@html
-<a name="mailing-lists">
-@end html
-@unnumberedsec Mailing lists
-
-If you have questions, do write to the mailing lists!
- (But don't forget to read the
-@uref{http://appel.dyndns.org/wiki?LilyPondFaqs,
-Frequently Asked Questions} first.)
-
-
-@itemize @bullet
-@item @uref{http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu-music,info-gnu-music@@gnu.org}
-is a low-volume list for information on the GNU Music project.
- This list is moderated; ask
- @email{drl@@gnu.org, David R. Linn} or
- @email{hanwen@@cs.uu.nl, Han-Wen} to send announcements for this list.
-@item @uref{http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-music,help-gnu-music@@gnu.org}
- For help with using LilyPond.
-@item @uref{http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-music,bug-gnu-music@@gnu.org}
-If you have bugreports, you should send them to this list.
-
-
-
- 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 @uref{http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-music-discuss,gnu-music-discuss@@gnu.org}
- For discussions concerning LilyPond.
-@end itemize
-
-These pages were entirely created from a @strong{development snapshot}
-of the LilyPond package. The version of this webpage is printed at the
-bottom.
+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}.
@bye
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